Politics Quotes
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The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honour the territorial imperative. (Quote by - Eugene McCarthy)
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. (Quote by - Fisher Ames)
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. (Quote by - Eugene McCarthy)
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom. (Quote by - Plato)
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Quote by - Aesop)
In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)
Away with the cant of Measures not men!--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing. (Quote by - George Canning)
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The essential ingredient of politics is timing. (Quote by - Pierre Elliott Trudeau)
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. (Quote by - Bernard Baruch)
A majority is always better than the best repartee. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. (Quote by - Konrad Adenauer)
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is... the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. (Quote by - Henry Kissinger)
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. (Quote by - Jay Leno)
I am of the opinion which you have always held, that viva voce voting at elections is the best method. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy. (Quote by - William L. Marcy)
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. (Quote by - Richard Darman)
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Party honesty is party expediency. (Quote by - Steven Grover Cleveland)
If nominated I will not accept; if elected I will not serve. (Quote by - William Tecumseh Sherman)
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. (Quote by - Meg Greenfield)
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. (Quote by - Vera Brittain)
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. (Quote by - Tony Blair)
The problem with political jokes is they get elected. (Quote by - Henry Cate, VII)
Money is the mother's milk of politics. (Quote by - Jesse Unruh)
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. (Quote by - Oscar Levant)
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. (Quote by - Maureen Murphy)
A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing. (Quote by - Duc de Choiseul)
All I know is I'm not a Marxist. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely. (Quote by - Lyman Bryson)
The statesman shears the sheep, the politician skins them. (Quote by - Austin O'Malley)
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. (Quote by - P.J. O'Rourke)
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. (Quote by - Edmond de Goncourt)
Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy. (Quote by - William Whitelaw)
Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married. (Quote by - Joseph Howe)
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests. (Quote by - Aneurin Bevan)
Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other. (Quote by - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill)
If God had been a Liberal there wouldn't have been Ten Commandments, there would have been Ten Suggestions. (Quote by - Malcolm Bradbury)
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and courage. This is a call to arms. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. (Quote by - Galbraith)
Politics is a blood sport. (Quote by - Aneurin Bevan)
Man is by nature a political animal. (Quote by - Fisher Ames)
In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. (Quote by - Paul Valery)
Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
In politics a week is a very long time. (Quote by - Harold Wilson)
Damn your principles! Stick to your party! (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Finality is not the language of politics. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Colbert)
Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door. (Quote by - Richard J Daley)
Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing. (Quote by - Bob Raev)
She displayed great courage and deep humanity both in her public life in politics and privately coping with her prolonged medical condition. (Quote by - Charles Kennedy)
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. (Quote by - Plato)
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be. (Quote by - M.M. Coady)
In politics, a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster. (Quote by - John P. Roche)
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. (Quote by - W.C. Fields)
Politics in America is the binding secular religion. (Quote by - Theodore H White)
If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner. (Quote by - Lindsey Nelson)
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election. (Quote by - Augustus William)
I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'. (Quote by - Red Skelton)
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat. (Quote by - Socrates)
You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It is just as simple as that. (Quote by - Richard Nixon)
What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics (Quote by - Anonymous)
Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice (Quote by - and they poisoned him. (Quote by - George Bush)
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. (Quote by - Ernest Benn)
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. (Quote by - Texas Guinan)
Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government. (Quote by - John Nance Garner)
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
The purification of politics is an iridescent dream. (Quote by - John Ingalls)
Men in high levels of government seldom surf. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)
There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible. (Quote by - Alexander Douglas-Home)
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. (Quote by - Lester B Pearson)
The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. (Quote by - Barry Goldwater)
Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the malign-ers of his honor. (Quote by - Charles J. Ingersoll)
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. (Quote by - George Jean Nathan)
My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics. (Quote by - Sam Himmel)
Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching. (Quote by - Michael Heseltine)
Liberals think you can reform an ax murderer. They don't want to kill anything. They want to change the Listerine labels to "Rehabilitate the germs that cause bad breath." (Quote by - Marc Price)
The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads. (Quote by - Tommy Douglas)
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. (Quote by - Cissy Farenthold)
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. (Quote by - John Quinton)
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question. (Quote by - André Malraux)
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. (Quote by - Stewart Udall)
Who is the dark horse he has in his stable? (Quote by - William Thackeray)
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. (Quote by - Clare Booth Luce)
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
One fifth of the people are against everything all the time. (Quote by - Robert F. Kennedy)
This organization (United Nations) is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven. (Quote by - Henry Cabot Lodge)
It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory. (Quote by - Steven Grover Cleveland)
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. (Quote by - Alfred E. Wiggam)
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it. (Quote by - Florence E Allen)
Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even. (Quote by - Everett Dirksen)
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's-license age than at voting age. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
Man is by nature a civic animal. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Politics is not an exact science. (Quote by - Otto von Bismarck)
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide." (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
One of the greatest Romans, when asked where were his politics, replied, Imperium et libertas. That would not make a bad programme for a British Ministry. (Quote by - Sir Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill)
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. (Quote by - H.L. Mencken)
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. (Quote by - Jawaharlal Nehru)
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. (Quote by - Donald Trump)
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
In politics nothing is contemptible. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Colbert)
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. (Quote by - Henry Kissinger)
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
A question which can be answered without prejudice to the government is not a fit question to ask. (Quote by - John G. Diefenbaker)
The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics] (Quote by - Clare Short)
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. (Quote by - Martin L. Gross)
It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as at the measures. (Quote by - Brougham and vaux)
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. (Quote by - Charles DeGaulle)
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. (Quote by - James Freeman Clarke)
We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate. (Quote by - Frank McKinney)
I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can (Quote by - Kenneth Clarke)
He is so aware of being politically correct he refers to a taco as Hispanic food. (Quote by - Wendy Morgan)
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. (Quote by - George Jean Nathan)
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. (Quote by - Eugene McCarthy)
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
Ultimately politics in a democracy reflects values much more than it shapes them. (Quote by - Arnold A. Rogow)
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician. (Quote by - Robert Orben)
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. (Quote by - Richard Armour)
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches. (Quote by - Lord Boyd-Orr)
As a politician he does everything to keep out of trouble, often by not asking questions. However, it does bother him that every time the doorbell rings his maid hides in the dryer. (Quote by - Jay Leno)
Damned Neuters, in their Middle way of Steering, Are neither Fish, nor Flesh, nor good Red Herring. (Quote by - John Dryden)
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
They pick a president, and then for four years they pick on him. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy. (Quote by - William White law)
I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run the brewery and he'd do politics. (Quote by - Pete Coors)
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. (Quote by - John Stuard Mill)
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. (Quote by - Lord Acton)
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees. (Quote by - Boris Marshalov)
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature. (Quote by - Murray Kempton)
It is a condition which confronts us (Quote by - not a theory. (Quote by - Grover Cleveland)
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. (Quote by - Plato)
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
When Cicero was in 64 BC running for consul of Rome he was reported to be advised by his "campaign manager" that the voters "had rather you lied to them than refused them." (Quote by - Anonymous)
The lady's not for turning. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong. (Quote by - Daniel O'Connell)
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. (Quote by - Oscar Ameringer)
If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat. (Quote by - Vance Packard)
Let it alone. Let it pass by. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Colbert)
Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
When I was a boy, I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight (Quote by - it's the size of the fight in the dog. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Politics is but the common pulsebeat, of which revolution is the feverspasm. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where they is no river. (Quote by - Nikita Khrushchev)
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
The public is very fickle, as I was saying to my cabdriver, Gerald Ford. (Quote by - Pat McCormick)
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country. (Quote by - Edward Abbey)
Deep down he is shallow. (Quote by - Political saying)
Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders. (Quote by - John Morley)
I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law. (Quote by - Fisher Ames)
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues. (Quote by - George Orwell)
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
There are no true friends in politics. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
History is gossip but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology (Quote by - Daniel Yergin)
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. (Quote by - Robertson Davies)
Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative? (Quote by - Lord Trent)
Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
In politics stupidity is not a handicap. (Quote by - Napoleon I. Bonaparte)
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Quote by - General Dwight David Eisenhower)
Politics is war without bloodshed, and war is politics with blood. (Quote by - Mao Tse-Tung)
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. (Quote by - George Will)
Politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why. (Quote by - Sidney Hillman)
The word politics is derived from the word poly, meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. (Quote by - Larry Hardiman)
A politican is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. (Quote by - Anonymous)
A conservative is a Democrat who's been mugged. I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it? (Quote by - Vat Paulsen)
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. (Quote by - Henry Adams)
Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. (Quote by - John Caldwell Calhoun)
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr)
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. (Quote by - Clare Boothe Luce)
It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats. (Quote by - Harold Macmillan)
It's nice to have four years between elections. It takes people that long to regain their faith. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Someone asked me... how I felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who has stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons. (Quote by - Joe Cannon)
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied. (Quote by - Edward Cheyfitz)
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. (Quote by - Henry Adams)
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. (Quote by - H.L. Mencken)
Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results. (Quote by - Bernard Crick)
As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it? (Quote by - William M. Tweed)
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you. (Quote by - Pierre Elliott Trudeau)
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. (Quote by - Plato)
A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large. (Quote by - Finley Peter Dunne)
Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together. (Quote by - Sean O'Casey)
The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose. (Quote by - Sir Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill)
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. (Quote by - Leonard Bernstein)
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. (Quote by - William E. Gladstone)
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all. (Quote by - W. S. Gilbert)
The world is a dangerous place to live (Quote by - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship. (Quote by - Ivern Ball)
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. (Quote by - Doug Larson)
The fact that a reactionary can sometimes be right is a little less recognized that the fact that a liberal can be. . . . (Quote by - Joseph Gies)
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. (Quote by - Leo Rosten)
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
He's like a football coach who's smart enough to win the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. (Quote by - Eugene McCarthy)
Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle. (Quote by - Ely Culbertson)
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. (Quote by - Saul Bellow)
War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means. (Quote by - Karl Von Clausewitz)
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. (Quote by - Robert Byrne)
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. (Quote by - John Gardner)
There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere. (Quote by - Hermione Gingold)
We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked. (Quote by - Dean Rusk)
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. (Quote by - Mikhail A Bakunin)
Politics is not a good location or a vocation for anyone lazy, thin-skinned or lacking a sense of humour. (Quote by - John Bailey)
Truth is not determined by majority vote. (Quote by - Doug Gwyn)
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. (Quote by - Walter Landor)
I was actually smiling, talking to one of my colleagues about my new baby... It was nothing to do with politics [on grinning in his car] (Quote by - Gordon Brown)
This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics. (Quote by - Nellie McClung)
Crime does not pay as well as politics. (Quote by - Alfred E Newman)
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote; A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat; So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is (Quote by - I could be just as proud for half the money. (Quote by - Arthur Godfrey)
There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign. (Quote by - Theodore White)
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The prerequisites for being in the diplomatic corps are the ability to handle protocol, alcohol, and Geritol. (Quote by - Wallace Rowling)
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. (Quote by - Harold Macmillan)
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. (Quote by - George E. MacDonald)
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. (Quote by - H G Wells)
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by mself. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. (Quote by - P.J. O'Rourke)
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion. (Quote by - Samuel Dickinson Burchard)
Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission. (Quote by - Isaac Hill Bromley)
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference. (Quote by - Dan Quayle)
I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it? (Quote by - Bob Hope)
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. (Quote by - Paul Valery)
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? (Quote by - Robert Orben)
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
