Quotes by Politicians - Page 9

One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
Robert F. Kennedy
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F Kennedy
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.
Eugene McCarthy
Politics is war without bloodshed and war is politics with blood.
Mao Tse-Tung
This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics.
Nellie McClung
This organization (United Nations) is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
Woodrow Wilson
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
Charles de Gaulle
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Someone asked me... how I felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell - Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who has stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry but it hurt too much to laugh.
Adlai Stevenson
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Jawaharlal Nehru
There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
Alexander Douglas-Home
The lady's not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.
Aneurin Bevan
In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle
You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It is just as simple as that.
Richard Nixon
If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.
Lord Boyd-Orr
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold Macmillan
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
Lord Acton
Poetry was the maiden I loved but politics was the harridan I married.
Joseph Howe
Damn your principles! Stick to your party!
Benjamin Disraeli
Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.
John Morley
In politics a week is a very long time.
Harold Wilson
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.
Harold Macmillan
A question which can be answered without prejudice to the government is not a fit question to ask.
John G. Diefenbaker
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.
William White law
The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.
Tommy Douglas
We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.
Dean Rusk
Macdonald's Law: Never write a letter if you can help it and never destroy one.
John A. Macdonald
He is a pragmatist. He is not right wing nor left wing nor any wing.
Robert Stanfield
I'm not an old experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai Stevenson
Never retract never explain never apologize - get the thing done and let them howl.
Nellie McClung
An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Adlai Stevenson
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."
John F Kennedy
If we cannot now end our differences at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F Kennedy
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles de Gaulle
Politics is a blood sport.
Aneurin Bevan
I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office.
George Washington
One of the luxuries of a politican's life is that you see yourself as others see you.
Joe Clark
If I believe in something I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.
Hubert Humphrey
You do not know you cannot know the difficulty of the life of a politician. It means every minute of the day or night every ounce of your energy. There is no rest no relaxation. Enjoyment? A politician does not know the meaning of the word.
Nikita Khrushchev
A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen.
John A. Macdonald
An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
Simon Cameron
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
Talleyrand
Since a politician never believes what he says he is surprised when others believe him.
Charles de Gaulle
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree if you agree with him he is a statesman.
David Lloyd George
All political lives unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture end in failure.
Enoch Powell
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.
Dean Acheson
I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done but I have done my best frankly and forth-rightly no man can do more and you are entitled to no less.
Adlai Stevenson
Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his friends for his political life.
Jeremy Thorpe
I love this job. I love it to death. I love every waking minute of it.
Joey Smallwood
Now that all the members of the press are so delighted I lost I'd like to make a statement. As I leave you I want you to know -just think how much you'll be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore because gentlemen this is my last press conference.
Richard Nixon
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position I'd have done the same.
Richard Nixon
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake sweet but not nourishing.
Nellie McClung
They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.
Henry Burton