Quotes about politics

"The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all."

Bradlee, Ben C. on politics   

"Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity."

Brittain, Vera on politics   

"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both."

Brodie, Fawn M. on politics   

"Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats."

Brogan, Denis E. on politics   

"A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins."

Broun, Heywood on politics   

"It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians."

Brown, Jerry on politics   

"I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together."

Bryan, William Jennings on politics   

"No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident."

Bryce, James on politics   

"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman."

Burke, Edmund on politics   

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"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind."

Burke, Edmund on politics   

"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."

Burke, Edmund on politics   

"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together."

Burke, Edmund on politics   

"People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that."

Bush, George on politics   

"A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life."

Byrne, Robert on politics
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"I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another."

Byron, Lord on politics   

"An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought."

Cameron, W. J. on politics   

"Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics."

Camus, Albert on politics
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"Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing."

Canning, George on politics   

"Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons."

Cannon, Joseph on politics   

"Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence."

Carlyle, Thomas on politics   

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"It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics."

Carlyle, Thomas on politics   

"Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body."

Cary, Joyce on politics   

"The problem with political jokes is they get elected."

Cate, Henry on politics
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"Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious."

Certeau, Michel De on politics   

"A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful."

Chapman, John Jay on politics   

"The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind."

Chapman, John Jay on politics   

"If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem."

Chapman, John Jay on politics
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"Politics is organized hatred, that is unity."

Chapman, John Jay on politics   

"Half a truth is better than no politics."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on politics   

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"Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack."

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame on politics   

"In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water."

Clark, Alan on politics   

"A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation."

Clarke, James Freeman on politics
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"You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year."

Clinton, Bill on politics
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"When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again."

Clinton, Bill on politics   

"The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service."

Clough, Arthur Hugh on politics