Politics Quotes

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter's 140-character limit, so it's not happ

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot.

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you’d better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope!

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.

In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is.

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train.

That's the beauty of our show. Comedy or politics. We're sort of a mix. A space age polymer of both. A synthetic comedy-like material.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.