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The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.
- Bagehot, Walter
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Best Quotes about Politics

1.
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Bacon, Francis

2.
In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
Swift, Jonathan

3.
Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.
Powell, L. R.

4.
The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
Seneca

5.
As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.
Marx, Karl

6.
Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.
Gaitskell, Hugh

7.
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!
Trotsky, Leon

8.
We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
Rich, Adrienne

9.
It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
Brown, Jerry

10.
If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.
Chapman, John Jay

11.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
Fuller, R. Buckminster

12.
When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Truman, Harry S

13.
A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.
Hearst, William Randolph

14.
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
Disraeli, Benjamin

15.
Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.
Brogan, Denis E.

16.
What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.
Ringer, Robert J.

17.
A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

18.
The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.
Sampson, Anthony

19.
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
Morley, John

20.
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
Nixon, Richard M.

21.
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Thatcher, Margaret

22.
The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
Major, John

23.
Never answer a question from a farmer.
Humphrey, Hubert H.

24.
People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.
Bush, George

25.
The word'politics'is derived from the word'poly', meaning'many', and the word'ticks', meaning'blood sucking parasites'.
Larry Hardiman

26.
A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.
Laird, Melvin R.

27.
Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Kissinger, Henry

28.
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
Rogers, Will

29.
The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.
Anderson, John B.

30.
To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.
Safire, William

31.
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Brittain, Vera

32.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Rogers, Will

33.
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.
Canning, George

34.
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
Forbes, Malcolm S.

35.
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
Henry Cate VII

36.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Jefferson, Thomas

37.
My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
Gorbachev, Mikhail

38.
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Churchill, Winston

39.
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
Russell, Dora

40.
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
Major, John

41.
When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.
Naito, Fern

42.
This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
Rogers, Will

43.
You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.
Henley, Anthony

44.
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Stevenson, Adlai E.

45.
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
Churchill, Winston

46.
The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
Rogers, Will

47.
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
Welles, Orson

48.
Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.
Churchill, Winston

49.
Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
Herriot, Edouard

50.
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Bolingbroke, Henry


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