All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.
Groucho MarxConservative 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 BradburyWhen I am getting ready to reason with a man I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say, and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham LincolnDemocracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar WildeTo 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 LincolnSometimes 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 RumsfeldPut 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. RooseveltAny 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 MillWhat we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI 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 DylanPolitics is almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston ChurchillIn politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon BonaparteFifty percent of people won't vote and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
Gore VidalA sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
Joseph StalinNecessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin FranklinNo part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Winston ChurchillElected leaders who forget how they got there, won't the next time.
Malcolm ForbesHypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise it costs nothing.
Edmund BurkeMothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. KennedyAnd 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 RomneyI don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham LincolnThere is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Will RogersCompromise n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Ambrose BierceIf once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Abraham LincolnPatriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
Mark TwainAn empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert EinsteinThe mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
Richard M. NixonThe rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark TwainTherefore the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
AristotleAny American who is prepared to run for president should automatically by definition be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore VidalI wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.
Barry GoldwaterNationality is the miracle of political independence, race is the principle of physical analogy.
Benjamin DisraeliEarnestness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'RourkeIt is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
AristotleIn 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. MenckenSometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.
Mitt RomneyOne should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar WildeWhen we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais NinA public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Richard M. NixonI 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 BonaparteOne 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 EinsteinHistory suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Milton FriedmanDistrust and caution are the parents of security.
Benjamin FranklinPolitical necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
George Bernard ShawPolitics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
Groucho MarxPublic sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed.
Abraham LincolnI 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 ClintonNothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and sometimes an indirect boast.
Jane AustenI'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.
Dolly PartonThe trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie he's a bummer to have around especially as President.
Hunter S. ThompsonPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis StevensonOne 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 WilsonI think that if I would talk on a political subject if I talk about it it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.
Billy GrahamIs it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
Milton FriedmanBy 2000 politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster FullerNowadays politically everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.
Clint EastwoodThe practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Benjamin DisraeliI'm a political conservative.
P. J. O'RourkeTo live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Calvin CoolidgeNixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife his family his friends his colleagues in the Congress lifetime members of his own political party the American people and the world.
Barry GoldwaterThe world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Woodrow WilsonPolitical ideology can corrupt the mind and science.
E. O. 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 ThatcherWhen I'm not a politician I'll be dead.
Barry GoldwaterThe world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Benjamin DisraeliFrom politics it was an easy step to silence.
Jane AustenWhat Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
George Bernard ShawI 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'RourkeThe 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 LowellFinality is not the language of politics.
Benjamin DisraeliA sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
James MadisonThe 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 maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied and which therefore more needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
James MadisonWar is the ultimate tool of politics.
R. Buckminster FullerThere is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable, for in politics there is no honour.
Benjamin DisraeliI 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 ClintonIn politics every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
Donald RumsfeldThe political scene is already so turgid it doesn't need more of that from me.
William ShatnerThe only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
Andy RooneyThe advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
Marilyn MansonThe method of political science is the interpretation of life, its instrument is insight a nice understanding of subtle unformulated conditions.
Woodrow WilsonWell I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.
Ron PaulPolitical systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people, it's not jury duty.
P. J. O'RourkeIn politics nothing happens by accident. If it happens you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing economics politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.
Stephen KingA 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 sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party as much as it left me.
Hillary ClintonIndividual rights are not subject to a public vote, a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority, the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn RandBefore 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 ObamaLife 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 SowellYou can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
Samuel JohnsonThe 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.
PlatoThe 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 SowellDown 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 ObamaIf 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 first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency, the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity, both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest HemingwayA 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. GardnerDivide 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 SwiftWhere is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
Barry GoldwaterTo 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 ReaganWe 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 MandelaI 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 most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Aldous HuxleyHalf a truth is better than no politics.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAnti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that Isaac Asimov
Everything 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 LincolnThe country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.
Mitt RomneyI 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.
SocratesI'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Bill GatesSome 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 BurkeWhat 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 AllenPolitics: 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