Politics Quotes - Page 5

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

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.

We are naked, but we think we are not; we are wrong, but think we are correct. We are misled but we think we are properly guided. We think we have leaders but in reality we do not. What we have are tyrants.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

We once again see the painful reality of the spineless political intelligentsia

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

If you want to denounce impunity then you have to start with denouncing the impunity that the regime enjoys.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

Charles Dickens

There’s nothing like a friendly handshake to establish social cooperation, but the bonobo handshake takes erotic politics to a whole new level.

True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.

Ponzi schemes don’t trickle down, they siphon up.

A voteless people is a hopeless people.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.

Sandra Chami Kassis

Whenever people talk in the abstract about the pros and cons of immigration, one should not forget that immigrants are individual human beings whose lives happen not to fit neatly within national borders – and that like all human beings, they are all different.How different, though? Different better, or different worse? Such basic questions underlie whether people are willing to accept outsiders in their midst

Philippe Legrain

I've spent a lifetime in challenge. There's no way in which you can create any meaningful change unless you do that.

Just because you talk about it or advocate for one position doesn't mean you care more. Just because someone doesn't talk about it and advocates a different position doesn't mean they care less.

Donna Lynn Hope

If you despise your people,you will disregard them.If you hate your people,you will harm them.If you esteem your people,you will serve them.If you love your people,you will even die for them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

What supporters say about their leadertells men a third about who he is.What supporters do for their leadertells men two thirds about who he is.What supporters give up for their leadertells men all of who he is.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Women must show their public face. We must help to work out our own community problems. We must insist on having equal voices and equal responsibilities. . . In large part, success depends on changing minds at home, in the streets, and at the workplace - not just in legislatures and in the courts. Each and every one of us has and important role to play in completing that task.

The only kind of appeal that wins any instinctive response in party politics is an appeal to hostile feeling; the men who perceive the need of cooperation are powerless. Until education has been directed for a generation into new channels, and the Press has abandoned incitements to hatred, only harmful policies have any chance of being adopted in practice by our present political methods. But there is no obvious means of altering education and the Press until our political system is altered. From this dilemma there is no issue by means of ordinary action, at any rate for a long time to come. The best that can be hoped, it seems to me, is that we should, as many of us as possible, become political skeptics, rigidly abstaining from belief in the various attractive party programmes that are put before us from time to time.

Bertrand Russell

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

Juan Cole

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