Politics Quotes - Page 2

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Margaret Thatcher

The public is very fickle as I was saying to my cabdriver Gerald Ford.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Eugene McCarthy

They pick a president and then for four years they pick on him.

Adlai Stevenson

A politican is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

Anonymous

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.

Deep down he is shallow.

Political saying

As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?

Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad get even.

Everett Dirksen

Forgiving is all forgetting is another thing.

Bob Rae

He's like a football coach who's smart enough to win the game and dumb enough to think it's important.

Eugene McCarthy

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honour the territorial imperative.

Eugene McCarthy

To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.

William L. Marcy

I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and courage. This is a call to arms.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A statesman is an easy man He tells his lies by rote A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote.

William Butler Yeats

Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once.

Winston Churchill

Money is the mother's milk of politics.

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.

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

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

It's nice to have four years between elections. It takes people that long to regain their faith.

Anonymous

Men in high levels of government seldom surf.

Liberals think you can reform an ax murderer. They don't want to kill anything. They want to change the Listerine labels to "Rehabilitate the germs that cause bad breath."

Politics is war without bloodshed and war is politics with blood.

This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens then everybody disagrees.

Boris Marshalov

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.

It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.

Charles de Gaulle

There is no excitement anywhere in the world short of war to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics.

Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.

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.

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

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.

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

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by mself.

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Harold Macmillan

Politics as a practice whatever its professions has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Reinhold Niebuhr

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Poetry was the maiden I loved but politics was the harridan I married.

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.

Politics is the science of how who gets what when and why.

Politics is but the common pulse beat.

Wendell Phillips

Politics is the gizzard of society full of gut and gravel.

Henry David Thoreau

In politics a week is a very long time.

The more you read about politics the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

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

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

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