Politics Quotes

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.

There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

What politics is all about today. Blah-blah-blah. The day that stops and the quality of our leaders improve, I will have to retire and go away.

In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.

There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.

He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.

Now if you shoot someone, sir, you can get off Scott free. It's the latest thing Mr. Lincoln, can you believe?

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Politics, of course, requires sweat, work, combat, and organization. But these should not be ugly words for and free people.

To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

I think that some restriction on speech is appropriate.

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media.

The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.