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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.
- President Barack Obama
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Best Quotes about Politics

1.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Jefferson, Thomas

2.
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
Reagan, Ronald

3.
In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

4.
The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.
Field, Franklin

5.
People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.
Rinehart, Dana Gillman

6.
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
Colby, Frank Moore

7.
Politics is a blood sport.
Bevan, Aneurin

8.
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

9.
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
Certeau, Michel De

10.
No party is as bad as its leaders.
Rogers, Will

11.
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

12.
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
Bierce, Ambrose

13.
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Rostand, Jean

14.
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
Arbuthnot, John

15.
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
Noonan, Peggy

16.
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Landor, Walter Savage

17.
There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
Richardson, Elliot

18.
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.
Marx, Karl

19.
Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
Ashdown, Paddy

20.
The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
Seneca

21.
Politics is applesauce.
Will Rogers

22.
Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence
Pitt, Martin

23.
A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

24.
When great questions end, little parties begin.
Bagehot, Walter

25.
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.

26.
Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

27.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
Fuller, R. Buckminster

28.
A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.
Hearst, William Randolph

29.
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Stevenson, Adlai E.

30.
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

31.
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

32.
Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.
Mondale, Walter F.

33.
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

34.
Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
Jimmy Wales

35.
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
Baudrillard, Jean

36.
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.

37.
It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.
Waugh, Auberon

38.
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
Plato

39.
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

40.
It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
Maugham, W. Somerset

41.
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?
Twain, Mark

42.
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

43.
The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.
Mccarthy, Eugene J.

44.
I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
Bryan, William Jennings

45.
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
Benn, Tony

46.
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

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

49.
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

50.
A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.
Fredrich


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