Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert EinsteinHe who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Abraham LincolnPolitics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho MarxPoliticians and diapers should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.
Mark TwainAnyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas AdamsThose 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 MarleyIn 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 BierceWhen 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 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 RumsfeldNothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth GalbraithThe spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Mahatma GandhiAny man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIt is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James MadisonYou 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 ThatcherWhat 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'RourkePolitics 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 VidalGive every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William ShakespeareA sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
Joseph StalinNo part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Winston ChurchillHypocrisy 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 LincolnThe loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
James MadisonPatriotism 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 TwainAny 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'RourkeIn Republics the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
James MadisonIn 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 WildeEverything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
Bob MarleyLook like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.
William ShakespeareWhen we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais NinWhenever you find yourself on the side of the majority it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark TwainThe man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Carl JungPolitics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.
Sai BabaOne 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 FriedmanPolitical necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
George Bernard ShawA 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.
AristotlePolitics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo MachiavelliThrough 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 StevensonProsperity 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 FullerAll that we do is done with an eye to something else.
AristotleNowadays 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 ClintonThe practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Benjamin DisraeliI'm a political conservative.
P. J. O'RourkeRadical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be for the world an example of a genuinely free democratic just and humane society.
Pope John Paul IITo 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 GoldwaterLike religion politics and family planning cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma BombeckPolitics is the art of controlling your environment.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe 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 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 ClintonWhen 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 AustenI 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 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 MadisonThere 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 BlakeIn 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 method of political science is the interpretation of life, its instrument is insight a nice understanding of subtle unformulated conditions.
Woodrow WilsonIn 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 BergmanWhen 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 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 Mandela