Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert EinsteinAll the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
MoliereHe who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Abraham LincolnPoliticians and diapers should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.
Mark TwainNo man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Abraham LincolnAs I would not be a slave so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham LincolnReader suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark TwainWhen I hear a man preach I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham LincolnFacts are stubborn but statistics are more pliable.
Mark TwainI desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at least have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham LincolnThose who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mahatma GandhiYou can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.
Bob MarleyIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VoltaireIn matters of conscience the law of the majority has no place.
Mahatma GandhiAll compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mahatma GandhiEverything is possible, from angels to demons, to economists and politicians.
Paulo CoelhoConservative n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose BierceI hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
Ray BradburyDemocracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar WildeIn politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. WellsTo expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar WildeAllow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham LincolnI claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mahatma GandhiSometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe and which mean very little.
Eleanor RooseveltDon't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President, or you delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.
Donald RumsfeldWith public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed.
Abraham LincolnIn my opinion eight years as president is enough, and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
Harry S. TrumanWhere is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Kahlil GibranPut two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control and outnumbers both of the other classes.
AristotleAny man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI don't vote. Two reasons. First of all it's meaningless, this country was bought and sold a long time ago. The shit they shovel around every 4 years *pfff* doesn't mean a fucking thing. Secondly I believe if you vote you have no right to complain. People like to twist that around
George CarlinElections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
Thomas SowellYou don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Margaret ThatcherAlthough it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
John Stuart MillI am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret ThatcherI rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
P. J. O'RourkeI've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
Bob DylanThe best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
AristotlePolitics is almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston ChurchillFifty percent of people won't vote and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
Gore VidalNecessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin FranklinNo part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Winston ChurchillThere is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics, none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
Thomas HuxleyHypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise it costs nothing.
Edmund BurkeAnd fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.
Mitt RomneyIn 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.
H. L. MenckenDon't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham LincolnHalf of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore VidalThe meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl MarxThe time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham LincolnI am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon BonaparteImportant principles may and must be inflexible.
Abraham LincolnOne strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Albert EinsteinI never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Abraham LincolnWhat the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
AristotlePublic sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed.
Abraham LincolnA tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand they do less easily move against him believing that he has the gods on his side.
AristotleI made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.
Nelson MandelaThrough pro-growth policies by abolishing Obamacare and eliminating other Obama-imposed impediments to economic growth we will get our economy back on track.
Mitt RomneyWhen an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.
Hillary ClintonOne of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
Thomas SowellProsperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Woodrow WilsonNowadays politically everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.
Clint EastwoodThe need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.
Hillary ClintonTo avoid being mistaken for a sellout I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Barack ObamaTo live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Calvin CoolidgeThe world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Woodrow WilsonAlliance - in international politics the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose BierceOne of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
Margaret ThatcherThere is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.
Hillary ClintonI seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
Lyndon B. JohnsonPositive rights are the right to shelter the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are I would call them more properly political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
P. J. O'RourkeIn our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues and politics itself is a mass of lies evasions folly hatred and schizophrenia.
George OrwellThe whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins all of them imaginary.
H. L. MenckenCompromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof, it is temporary expedient often wise in party politics almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell LowellBy burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him but you will not rid men's minds of him.
Desiderius ErasmusThe constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress, therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George WashingtonThere is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable, for in politics there is no honour.
Benjamin DisraeliPolitics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Thomas JeffersonI am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools, they seem to me to be something else besides human life.
William BlakeThere is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest, but also the best interests of the world.
Hillary ClintonThere will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers and political power, and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
PlatoPolitical systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people, it's not jury duty.
P. J. O'RourkeA typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Theodore RooseveltIn Paris when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They didn't like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it.
Ingrid BergmanI have not the smarts or patience for political office.
Henry RollinsBefore I went to jail I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
Nelson MandelaI probably will have to become more political down the road when my playing days are done because I'm going to have to have the support of others to grow my foundation.
Tiger WoodsIn every country today there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics but there is politics.
Hillary ClintonPower is action, the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Honore de BalzacWhen it comes to the health of our families Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.
Michelle ObamaI think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
Henry RollinsLife in general has never been even close to fair so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
Thomas SowellThe stimulus was a case of political patronage corporate welfare and cronyism at their worst.
Paul RyanFor the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state, since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
PlatoAll ideologies are idiotic whether religious or political for it is conceptual thinking the conceptual word which has so unfortunately divided man.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Theodore RooseveltI was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.
Hillary ClintonWhat we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.
Paul RyanIt has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Ronald ReaganIt is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
Lyndon B. JohnsonImagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
Thomas SowellPolitics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are like God's infinite mercy a last resort.
P. J. O'RourkeIn writing and politicking it's best not to think about it just do it.
Gore VidalDown the road I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on and humor.
Alanis MorissetteThe ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham LincolnI am definitely not a politician.
Tiger WoodsI think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.
Michelle ObamaWhat is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
William BlakePolitics is for the present but an equation is for eternity.
Albert EinsteinIf churches want to play the game of politics let them pay admission like everyone else
George CarlinI don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.
Hillary ClintonWhen a new source of taxation is found it never means in practice that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
H. L. MenckenThe world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
Chuck PalahniukA national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
H. L. MenckenPolitics is a profession, a serious complicated and in its true sense a noble one.
Dwight D. EisenhowerPolitical extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
John W. GardnerOne has to be a lowbrow a bit of a murderer to be a politician ready and willing to see people sacrificed slaughtered for the sake of an idea whether a good one or a bad one.
Henry MillerDivide and rule the politician cries, unite and lead is watchword of the wise.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAll political revolutions not affected by foreign conquest originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
John Stuart MillPresident Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency.The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it not the economy as he envisions it but this economy as we are living it.
Paul RyanI must not write a word to you about politics because you are a woman.
John AdamsI always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think well if they attack one personally it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret ThatcherI would just like to say something ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that you we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.
Clint EastwoodThe sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Reinhold NiebuhrWe must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges
Winston ChurchillPolitics as the word is commonly understood are nothing but corruptions.
Jonathan SwiftWe need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
Calvin CoolidgeI never considered a difference of opinion in politics in religion in philosophy as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas JeffersonTo those who have exhausted politics nothing remains but abstract thought.
Honore de BalzacPolitics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald ReaganIn the end that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
Barack ObamaWe believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people of every background to succeed and prosper. Under this approach the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.
Paul RyanI do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
Nelson MandelaA state is not a mere society having a common place established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions and not of mere companionship.
AristotleI remain just one thing and one thing only and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Charlie ChaplinOnly very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
Orson WellesThe easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible possible.
Hillary ClintonHalf a truth is better than no politics.
Gilbert K. ChestertonEverything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Will RogersI was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Abraham LincolnWhether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.
Hillary ClintonThe country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.
Mitt RomneyDemocracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
AristotleI don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
Henry A. KissingerPolitics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Jean-Paul SartreIf you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
Will RogersIn politics nothing is contemptible.
Benjamin DisraeliI was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
SocratesIn our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George OrwellSome day following the example of the United States of America there will be a United States of Europe.
George WashingtonMagnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund BurkePolitical language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George OrwellWhat should I have known or written had I been a quiet mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel and turmoil or there is no existence.
Lord ByronOne of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
PlatoOn one hand given the political climate (in Amherst) I'm not shocked.
James AllenMan is by nature a political animal.
AristotlePolitics is the diversion of trivial men who when they succeed at it become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
George Jean NathanPolitics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose BierceThe more you observe politics the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Will RogersUniversity politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry A. KissingerIn politics... never retreat never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon BonaparteI really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.
Paul Ryan