Quotes about politics

"People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin."

Pell, Claiborne on politics   

"The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed."

Pepper, Claude D. on politics   

"If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out."

Perot, H. Ross on politics   

"Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it."

Peter, Laurence J. on politics   

"Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence"

Pitt, Martin on politics   

"To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators."

Platen on politics   

"The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."

Plato on politics   

"In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one."

Plato on politics   

"I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few."

Pope, Alexander on politics   

"Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye."

Powell, L. R. on politics   

"People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."

Quayle, Dan on politics   

"Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!"

Quayle, Dan on politics   

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."

Quayle, Dan on politics   

"Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel."

Quinton, John on politics   

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

Reagan, Ronald on politics
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"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."

Reagan, Ronald on politics   

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."

Reagan, Ronald on politics
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"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15."

Reagan, Ronald on politics
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"Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close."

Reagan, Ronald on politics   

"We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie."

Rich, Adrienne on politics   

"There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible."

Richardson, Elliot on politics   

"People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading."

Rinehart, Dana Gillman on politics   

"What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority."

Ringer, Robert J. on politics   

"In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster."

Roche, John P. on politics   

"There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail."

Rogers, Will on politics   

"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"

Rogers, Will on politics   

"I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce."

Rogers, Will on politics   

"No party is as bad as its leaders."

Rogers, Will on politics   

"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."

Rogers, Will on politics   

"Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space."

Rogers, Will on politics   

"The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best."

Rogers, Will on politics   

"The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected."

Rogers, Will on politics
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"This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation."

Rogers, Will on politics   

"The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it."

Rogers, Will on politics   

"A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on politics   

"No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on politics   

"The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day."

Roosevelt, Theodore on politics   

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty."

Roosevelt, Theodore on politics
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"The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice."

Roosevelt, Theodore on politics   

"Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon)."

Rosenberg, Harold on politics