Quotes About Politics

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Politics

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Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

~Mao Zedong

 

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

~Mark Twain

 

Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it’s officially denied.

~Edward T. Cheyfitz

 

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

~Martin Luther King Jr.

 

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

~George Will

 

You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

~Malcolm X

 

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

~Abraham Lincoln

 

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.

~Dan Quayle

 

 

 

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

~Winston Churchill

 

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

~Groucho Marx

 

I’m not a leftist; I’m where the righteous ought to be.

~M.M. Coady

 

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

~Thomas Jefferson

 

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.

~James Freeman Clarke, Sermon

 

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

~Mahatma Gandhi

 

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

~Robert Byrne

 

If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

~Keith Richards, Keith Richards: In His Own Words

 

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

~George Jean Nathan

 

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

~Ayn Rand

 

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

~P.J. O’Rourke

 

I’m completely in favor of the
separation of Church and State.
… These two institutions screw us up enough
on their own, so both of them together is
certain death.

~George Carlin

 

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

~Woodrow Wilson

 

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

~Napoléon Bonaparte

 

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

~George Burns

 

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.

~Walter Lippmann

 

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

~José Martí

 

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

~Clare Boothe Luce

 

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

~Richelle Mead

 

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

~Ronald Reagan

 

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

~Plato, The Republic

 

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

~Murray Kempton

 

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

~Thomas Jefferson

 

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 E. MacDonald

 

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

~John F. Kennedy

 

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

~Thomas Jefferson

 

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.

~Carl Sandburg

 

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

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.

~Sean O’Casey

 

 

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

~Karl Marx

 

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

~John F. Kennedy

 

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

~Aesop

 

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.

~Sun Tzu, The Art of War

 

We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

~Will Rogers

 

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

~Isaac Asimov

 

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

~Plato

 

If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.

~Emma Goldman

 

Politics, n: Poly “many” + tics “blood-sucking parasites”

~Larry Hardiman

 

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

~Edward R. Murrow

 

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

 

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

~Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

~Texas Guinan

 

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

~Marie Lu, Legend

 

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

~Ronald Reagan

 

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

~Thomas Jefferson

 

History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

~Oscar Wilde

 

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

~Winston S. Churchill

 

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

~Frank Herbert

 

All people are born alike — except Republicans and Democrats.

~Groucho Marx

 

I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel – let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they’re doing. I’m concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that’s handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.

~Howard Zinn

 

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

~Winston Churchill

 

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

~Gore Vidal, Screening History

 

If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

~Jay Leno

 

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.

~Ronald Reagan

 

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

~Aristotle

 

Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.

~Caroline Baum

 

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

~Barack Obama

 

 The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

~Henry Cate, VII

 

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn’t have declared their independence from it.

~Stephen Colbert

 

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.

~Plato

 

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

~Thomas Jefferson

 

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

~Charles de Gaulle

 

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.

~Pericles

 

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

~Maureen Murphy

 

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

~Mark Twain

 

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

~Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

 

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

~Gore Vidal

 

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it….

~George Bernard Shaw

 

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

~George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara

 

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

~Doug Larson

 

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

~Vladimir Ilich Lenin

 

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.

~Adlai Stevenson

 

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

~Charles de Gaulle

 

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

~Adlai Stevenson

 

As government expands, liberty contracts.

~Ronald Reagan

 

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

~Adlai Stevenson

 

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

~Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World

 

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

 

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

 

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

~Albert Einstein

 

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

~John Quinton

 

Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.

~Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

 

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

~Nikita Khrushchev

 

I have never voted in my life… I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it’s certain they will win.

~Louis-Ferdinand Céline

 

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