Politics Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Will Rogers,
Adlai E. Stevenson
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| We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. |
| - Aesop |
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| Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. |
| - Oscar Ameringer |
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| Don't vote, it only encourages them. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| During a campaign the air is full of speeches - and vice versa. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America? |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The Christian Right is neither. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club. |
| - Dave Barry |
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| Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. |
| - Saul Bellow |
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| Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. |
| - Ernest Benn |
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| A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. |
| - Leonard Bernstein |
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| Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. |
| - Robert Byrne |
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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. |
| - Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. |
| - Sir Winston Churchill |
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| When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. |
| - Clarence Darrow |
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| Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. |
| - Robertson Davies |
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| A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large. |
| - Finley Peter Dunne |
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| All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. |
| - T.S. Eliot |
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| The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. |
| - Cissy Farenthold |
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| Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. |
| - W.C. Fields |
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| Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. |
| - John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. |
| - John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. |
| - John W. Gardner |
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| I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. |
| - Charles de Gaulle |
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| In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. |
| - Charles de Gaulle |
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| There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere. |
| - Hermione Gingold |
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| If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. |
| - Emma Goldman |
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| A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. |
| - Texas Guinan |
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| We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate. |
| - Frank Mckinney Hubbard |
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| Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. |
| - Thomas Jefferson |
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| Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. |
| - Doug Larson |
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| If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. |
| - Jay Leno |
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| The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. |
| - Oscar Levant |
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| What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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| Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. |
| - Walter Lippmann |
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| The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. |
| - Clare Booth Luce |
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| They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. |
| - Clare Booth Luce |
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| A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question. |
| - André Malraux |
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| American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's-license age than at voting age. |
| - Marshall McLuhan |
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| Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. |
| - Henry Louis Mencken |
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| In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. |
| - Henry Louis Mencken |
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| Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. |
| - John Stuart Mill |
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| The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. |
| - Maureen Murphy |
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| Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. |
| - George Jean Nathan |
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| The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. |
| - P.J. O'Rourke |
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| When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. |
| - P.J. O'Rourke |
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| Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? |
| - Robert Orben |
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| One ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark, its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time, one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase - some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno or other lump of verbal refuse - into the dustbin where it belongs. |
| - George Orwell |
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| Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom. |
| - Plato |
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| Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. |
| - Plato |
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| Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. |
| - Ronald Reagan |
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| The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win. |
| - Will Rogers |
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| The trouble with political jokes is that very often they get elected. |
| - Will Rogers |
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| There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. |
| - Will Rogers |
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| We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in. |
| - Will Rogers |
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| A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. |
| - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. |
| - Leo Rosten |
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| A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. |
| - Carl Sandburg |
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| I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. |
| - Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. |
| - Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is... the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. |
| - Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. |
| - Alexis de Tocqueville |
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| Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. |
| - Gore Vidal |
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| History is gossip but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. |
| - George Will |
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| A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. |
| - Woodrow Wilson |
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| Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt. |
| - Woodrow Wilson |
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