Politics Quotes

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels & free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep & conformists.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie.

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. Once you see that you lose all hope.

This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.

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, most of them imaginary.

Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz -- Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made, " you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.

There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it...

It is the moral duty of every US voter to guarantee that Barack Hussein Obama is a one-term president.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.

And I reminded myself that a woman should be able to dress as she liked without a man hurting her...

From the people who brought you "zero tolerance, " I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone?

There is nothing political about American literature.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay atten

Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.

Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening.

Indeed, one concern would be that the initial neoconservative response to a zombie outbreak would be to invade Iraq again out of force of habit.

[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free

Don't let them tell us stories

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?""Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win.

When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky, ' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot

I saw America's economy last night, people raiding dumpsters at a higher rate than normal in my home town. Digging through garbage shouldn't be a career. Thanks Democrats. Thanks Republicans.

...if the Democrats suggested a plan to burn down the Capitol building, the Republicans would counter with a plan to do it over the course of three years.

Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable

Government succeeds by failing.

Power concedes nothing without a demand.

They accepted my donation, so they're aware they'd better serve my interests or I'll buy some leadership that will.

I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment in history or nothing happens.

These opportunities, then, gave these men the chance they needed, and their great abilities made them recognize it.

Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.

Why is there never a headline that says "Government program ends as its intended goal has been achieved"?

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. Hubert Humphrey, as quoted by Biden, p. 134

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common...

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I’ll be damned if Rick Perry didn’t take me up on that.

In these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.