Quotes about politics




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"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."

Huxley, Aldous on politics    Share


"There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high."

Huxley, Thomas H. on politics    Share

"My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised."

Jackson, Jesse on politics    Share

"When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property."

Jefferson, Thomas on politics    Share

"Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them."

Jefferson, Thomas on politics    Share

"Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on politics    Share

"If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on politics    Share

"You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses."

Johnson, Pamela Hansford on politics    Share

"Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it."

Johnson, Samuel on politics    Share

"It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it."

Junius on politics    Share

"A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature."

Kempton, Murray on politics
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"Once you run for office, you're in it -- sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally."

Kennedy Jr., John F. on politics    Share

"Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."

Kennedy, Joseph on politics    Share

"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."

Kennedy, John F. on politics    Share

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build A bridge even where there is no river."

Khrushchev, Nikita on politics    Share

"Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected."

Kirkpatrick, Jeane on politics    Share

"Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."

Kissinger, Henry on politics    Share

"If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately."

Kissinger, Henry on politics    Share

"Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means."

Koestler, Arthur on politics    Share

"A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents."

Laird, Melvin R. on politics    Share

"In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always."

Landor, Walter Savage on politics    Share

"What this country needs is more unemployed politicians."

Langley, Edward on politics    Share

"He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on politics    Share

"To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics."

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich on politics    Share

"It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find."

Lieberman, Gerald F. on politics    Share

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

Lincoln, Abraham on politics    Share

"Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork."

Lowman, Hariold on politics    Share

"Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."

Macaulay, Lord on politics    Share

"As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound."

Macmillan, Harold on politics    Share

"At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman."

Macmillan, Harold on politics    Share

"The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision."

Major, John on politics    Share

"The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare."

Major, John on politics    Share

"Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong."

Marquis, Don on politics    Share

"Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does."

Marx, Groucho on politics    Share

"The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent."

Marx, Karl on politics    Share

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