Quotes about politics

"A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies."

Fredrich on politics   

"The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression."

French National Assembly on politics   

"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on politics
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"Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go."

Gaitskell, Hugh on politics   

"There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on politics   

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on politics   

"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on politics   

"There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible."

Galsworthy, John on politics   

"I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on politics   

"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him."

Gaulle, Charles De on politics
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"I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

Gaulle, Charles De on politics
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"What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics."

George, David Lloyd on politics   

"In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on politics   

"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world."

Goldman, Emma on politics   

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"The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue."

Goldman, Emma on politics   

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"If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government."

Goldwater, Barry on politics   

"It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me."

Goldwater, Barry on politics   

"My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could."

Gorbachev, Mikhail on politics   

"If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country."

Grant, Amy on politics   

"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats."

Greeley, Horace on politics   

"Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame."

Greenfield, Meg on politics
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"Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it."

Halifax, Edward F. on politics   

"In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme."

Hattersley, Roy on politics   

"He serves his party best who serves his country best."

Hayes, Rutherford B. on politics   

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"A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two."

Hazlitt, William on politics   

"A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot."

Hearst, William Randolph on politics   

"We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole."

Heath, Edward on politics   

"In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable."

Heine, Heinrich on politics   

"You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation."

Henley, Anthony on politics   

"Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage."

Herriot, Edouard on politics   

"Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do."

Higgins, George V. on politics   

"Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art."

Hijazi, Muhammad on politics
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"One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions."

Horace on politics   

"Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature."

Hubbard, Kin on politics   

"Politics makes strange postmasters."

Hubbard, Kin on politics   

"I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans."

Hubbard, Kin on politics   

"If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public."

Hubbard, Kin on politics   

"The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on politics   

"Never answer a question from a farmer."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on politics   

"A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on politics