Famous Quotes About - politics

  • A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. ... Woodrow Wilson {view}
  • A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ... Franklin D. Roosevelt {view}
  • A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. ... Leo Rosten {view}
  • A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. ... Caskie Stinnett {view}
  • A fool and his money are soon elected. ... Will Rogers {view}
  • A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it. ... Frank Lloyd Wright {view}
  • A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. ... Charles W. Pickering {view}
  • A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. ... Harry S. Truman {view}
  • 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. ... Leonard Bernstein {view}
  • A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money. ... Carter Glass {view}
  • A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. ... William Randolph {view}
  • A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. ... Albert Pike {view}
  • After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain. ... George C. Wallace {view}
  • All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. ... Harry S. Truman {view}
  • Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. ... John Quincy Adams {view}
  • America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. ... Warren G. Harding {view}
  • An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ... Arnold H. Glasow {view}
  • And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office. ... Christy Romano {view}
  • Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ... Gore Vidal {view}
  • Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ... Gore Vidal {view}
  • As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. ... Daniel J. Boorstin {view}
  • Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. ... William E. Simon {view}
  • Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. ... Spiro T. Agnew {view}
  • Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. ... Ambrose Bierce {view}
  • Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. ... John Stuart Mill {view}
  • Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. ... George Will {view}
  • Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. ... Robert Byrne {view}
  • Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. ... E. B. White {view}
  • Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ... Aristotle {view}
  • Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? ... Robert Orben {view}
  • Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class. ... B. R. Ambedkar {view}
  • Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. ... Lady Bird Johnson {view}
  • For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. ... John W. Gardner {view}
  • Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. ... Edward Kennedy {view}
  • Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. ... William O. Douglas {view}
  • Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. ... Daniel J. Boorstin {view}
  • Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. ... A. J. Liebling {view}
  • Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. ... Gore Vidal {view}
  • He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. ... Henry B. Adams {view}
  • He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. ... Napoleon Bonaparte {view}
  • Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. ... Winston Churchill {view}
  • Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. ... Milton Friedman {view}
  • Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. ... W. C. Fields {view}
  • I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. ... William Gilbert {view}
  • I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. ... Margaret Thatcher {view}
  • I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days. ... Gerhard Schroder {view}
  • I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. ... Dan Quayle {view}
  • I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. ... Will Rogers {view}
  • I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. ... Arthur C. Clarke {view}
  • I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. ... Thomas Jefferson {view}
  • I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. ... Edward Koch {view}
  • I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. ... Napoleon Bonaparte {view}
  • I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. ... A. N. Wilson {view}
  • I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. ... Sydney Pollack {view}
  • I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. ... Gary Hart {view}
  • I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. ... Jeane Kirkpatrick {view}
  • I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. ... Barry Goldwater {view}
  • I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. ... Oliver Stone {view}
  • 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. ... Meg Greenfield {view}
  • If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. ... William Tecumseh Sherman {view}
  • If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. ... Nelson Mandela {view}
  • If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. ... Emma Goldman {view}
  • If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ... Louis D. Brandeis {view}
  • If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ... Noam Chomsky {view}
  • If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents. ... Edward Koch {view}
  • If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. ... Thomas Sowell {view}
  • If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. ... Winston Churchill {view}
  • If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. ... Milton Friedman {view}
  • In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. ... J. William Fulbright {view}
  • In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport. ... Dick Gregory {view}
  • In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. ... Charles de Gaulle {view}
  • In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. ... Charles de Gaulle {view}
  • In politics nothing is contemptible. ... Benjamin Disraeli {view}
  • In politics the middle way is none at all. ... John Adams {view}
  • 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. ... H. L. Mencken {view}
  • Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. ... Ronald Reagan {view}
  • Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ... Doug Larson {view}
  • It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms. ... Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. {view}
  • It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. ... Sandra Day O'Connor {view}
  • It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ... Mahatma Gandhi {view}
  • It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. ... Sandra Day O'Connor {view}
  • It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. ... Joseph Stalin {view}
  • 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. ... George MacDonald {view}
  • It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. ... Abba Eban {view}
  • Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. ... Daniel Webster {view}
  • Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. ... John F. Kennedy {view}
  • Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ... William E. Gladstone {view}
  • Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. ... John Kenneth Galbraith {view}
  • Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. ... Khalil Gibran {view}
  • Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ... Thomas B. Macaulay {view}
  • My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. ... John F. Kennedy {view}
  • My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote. ... Sandra Day O'Connor {view}
  • Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. ... Henry A. Kissinger {view}
  • No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. ... Emma Goldman {view}
  • Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. ... Dwight D. Eisenhower {view}
  • One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. ... Plato {view}
  • One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. ... Cal Thomas {view}
  • Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. ... Milton Friedman {view}
  • Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois. ... Dick Durbin {view}
  • Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. ... Thurgood Marshall {view}
  • Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ... Newt Gingrich {view}
  • Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. ... Aristotle {view}
  • Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. ... Will Rogers {view}
  • Politics have no relation to morals. ... Niccolo Machiavelli {view}
  • Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. ... Winston Churchill {view}
  • Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. ... John Kenneth Galbraith {view}
  • Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ... Charles de Gaulle {view}
  • Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ... Mao Tse-Tung {view}
  • Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ... Richard Armour {view}
  • Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ... Ambrose Bierce {view}
  • Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. ... R. Buckminster Fuller {view}
  • Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ... Lord Acton {view}
  • Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. ... Mark Twain {view}
  • Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. ... Pope John Paul II {view}
  • Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. ... Russell Baker {view}
  • Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. ... Jimmy Carter {view}
  • Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. ... Lewis Black {view}
  • Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. ... Grover Cleveland {view}
  • So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. ... Roger Nash Baldwin {view}
  • Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. ... Mark Twain {view}
  • Television is democracy at its ugliest. ... Paddy Chayefsky {view}
  • The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. ... Ross Perot {view}
  • The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. ... Neal Barnard {view}
  • The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. ... Dante Alighieri {view}
  • 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. ... P. J. O'Rourke {view}
  • The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. ... R. Buckminster Fuller {view}
  • The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. ... Theodore White {view}
  • The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich. ... P. J. O'Rourke {view}
  • The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ... Adlai E. Stevenson {view}
  • The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. ... Robert Reich {view}
  • 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. ... John Kenneth Galbraith {view}
  • The most important political office is that of the private citizen. ... Louis D. Brandeis {view}
  • The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. ... Oscar Levant {view}
  • The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ... John Stuart Mill {view}
  • The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. ... Clare Boothe Luce {view}
  • The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong. ... Fidel Castro {view}
  • The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. ... Fidel Castro {view}
  • The secret of getting things done is to act! ... Dante Alighieri {view}
  • The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. ... Erich Fromm {view}
  • The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. ... Herbert Hoover {view}
  • The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. ... Deng Xiaoping {view}
  • The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. ... Bill Vaughan {view}
  • The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ... H. L. Mencken {view}
  • The world is governed by opinion. ... William Ellery Channing {view}
  • Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. ... Robertson Davies {view}
  • There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. ... Gertrude Stein {view}
  • There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. ... Alexis de Tocqueville {view}
  • They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. ... Clare Boothe Luce {view}
  • Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. ... Alexander Hamilton {view}
  • 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ... Thomas Paine {view}
  • Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. ... Gilbert K. Chesterton {view}
  • Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. ... Ralph Nader {view}
  • Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. ... Bernard Baruch {view}
  • Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. ... George Will {view}
  • Voting is a civic sacrament. ... Theodore Hesburgh {view}
  • We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure. ... Frank Howard Clark {view}
  • We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ... Stewart Udall {view}