Politics Quotes

"Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man."

"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together."

"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."

"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."

"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."

"Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value."

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."

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

"When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy."

"There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand."

"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."

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."

"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."

"By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over."

"In politics the middle way is none at all."

"Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?"

"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."

"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."

"Politics is applesauce."

"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."

"Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas."

"We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate."

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

"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."

"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."

"You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord."

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

"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader."

"Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."

"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."

"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."

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

"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."

"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."

"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."

"The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong."

"Oh, that lovely title, ex-president."

"Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned."

"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."

"In politics nothing is contemptible."

"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."

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

"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

"There might be some serious fun in politics."

"Finality is not the language of politics."

"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."

"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."

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."