Quotes about politics

"Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise."

Colby, Frank Moore on politics   

"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on politics
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"What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations."

Coolidge, Calvin on politics   

"Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party."

Cooper, James F. on politics   

"Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it."

Cudworth, Ralph J. on politics   

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

Culbertson, Ely on politics   

"A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on politics   

"Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined."

Dane, Frank on politics   

"The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements."

Dane, Frank on politics   

"The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time."

Davis, Angela Y. on politics   

"In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well."

Deighton, Len on politics   

"The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland, sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!"

Dickens, Charles on politics   

"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."

Disraeli, Benjamin on politics
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"A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy."

Disraeli, Benjamin on politics   

"A majority is always better than the best repartee."

Disraeli, Benjamin on politics   

"A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself."

Disraeli, Benjamin on politics   

"Finality is not the language of politics."

Disraeli, Benjamin on politics   

"In politics, nothing is contemptible."

Disraeli, Benjamin on politics
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"No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married."

Disraeli, Benjamin on politics   

"The art of governing mankind by deceiving them."

Disraeli, Benjamin on politics   

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"There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident."

Disraeli, Benjamin on politics   

"Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools."

Disraeli, Benjamin on politics   

"Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there."

Dixon, Alan on politics   

"Resolved to ruin or to rule the state."

Dryden, John on politics   

"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."

Eban, Abba on politics   

"Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on politics   

"An empty stomach is not a good political advisor."

Einstein, Albert on politics
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"Politics is far more complicated than physics."

Einstein, Albert on politics
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"Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on politics   

"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on politics   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on politics   

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"Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed."

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus on politics   

"As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date."

Ephron, Nora on politics   

"Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place."

Erasmus, Desiderius on politics   

"The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly."

Field, Franklin on politics   

"What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years."

Fischer, John on politics   

"Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on politics   

"Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on politics   

"The first mistake in public business is going into it."

Franklin, Benjamin on politics   

"Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy."

Franklin, Billy Boy on politics