Politics Quotes

I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.

Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.

The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.

Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Liberals can't just come out and say, they want to take more of our money, kill babies, and discriminate on the basis of race.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.

Have pity on a dinosaur.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they’re stupid.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar.

And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.

In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.

Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.