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I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
- Pope, Alexander
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Best Quotes about Politics

1.
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
Marquis, Don

2.
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
Forbes, Malcolm S.

3.
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.

4.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Jefferson, Thomas

5.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Aristotle

6.
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
Nixon, Richard M.

7.
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
Marx, Groucho

8.
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Bolingbroke, Henry

9.
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

10.
When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.
Naito, Fern

11.
The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.
Field, Franklin

12.
Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.
Nash, Ogden

13.
The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.
Barres

14.
The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.
Roosevelt, Theodore

15.
In politics the middle way is none at all.
Adams, John

16.
People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.
Pell, Claiborne

17.
Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.
Montalbano, Benjamin J.

18.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.
Mencken, H. L.

19.
Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

20.
It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
Maugham, W. Somerset

21.
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
Clark, Alan

22.
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

23.
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

24.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De Gaulle

25.
In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
Tocqueville, Alexis De

26.
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

27.
Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.
Mitchell, George J.

28.
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

29.
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
Davis, Angela Y.

30.
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Rogers, Will

31.
A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
Truman, Harry S

32.
What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.
Coolidge, Calvin

33.
My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
Auden, W. H.

34.
To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.
Platen

35.
At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.
Macmillan, Harold

36.
A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
Broun, Heywood

37.
Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.
Lippmann, Walter

38.
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.

39.
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Stevenson, Adlai E.

40.
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
Margaret Cho

41.
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

42.
A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
Kempton, Murray

43.
Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.
Franklin, Billy Boy

44.
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
Baudrillard, Jean

45.
As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
Macmillan, Harold

46.
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.
Cary, Joyce

47.
You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.
Clinton, Bill

48.
People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.
Watanabe, Michio

49.
Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

50.
Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.
President Barack Obama


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