Politics Quotes - Page 3

Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.

Abraham Lincoln

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

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

George Jean Nathan

The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.

Stanley Kubrick

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.

William White law

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.

The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Henry Kissinger

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.

Dean Rusk

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

When Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC ) was in 64 BC running for consul of Rome he was reported to be advised by his "campaign manager" that the voters "had rather you lied to them than refused them."

Anonymous

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

Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Ultimately politics in a democracy reflects values much more than it shapes them.

Arnold A. Rogow

Politics is not a good location or a vocation for anyone lazy thin-skinned or lacking a sense of humour.

A question which can be answered without prejudice to the government is not a fit question to ask.

John G. Diefenbaker

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

Karl Marx

The fact that a reactionary can sometimes be right is a little less recognized that the fact that a liberal can be. . . .

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."

If we cannot now end our differences at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Charles de Gaulle

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.

Socrates

Politics is a blood sport.

I always voted at my party's call And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Man is by nature a civic animal.

Aristotle

Politics is not an exact science.

Otto von Bismarck

A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation.

James Freeman Clarke

It is a condition which confronts us - not a theory.

Grover Cleveland

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Benjamin Disraeli

Damned Neuters in their Middle way of Steering Are neither Fish nor Flesh nor good Red Herring.

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

Like an armed warrior like a plumed knight James G. Blaine marched down the halls of American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country and the malign-ers of his honor.

Charles J. Ingersoll

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Daniel O'Connell

Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.

Wendell Phillips

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

The statesman shears the sheep the politician skins them.

Austin O'Malley

My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff.

Theodore Roosevelt

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

William Shakespeare

If nominated I will not accept if elected I will not serve.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?

William Thackeray

As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?

William M. Tweed

A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.

A conservative is a Democrat who's been mugged. I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip isn't it?

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money.

I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it?

Bob Hope

Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.

John Nance Garner

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

William Whitelaw

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