The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

In our seeking for economic and political progress we all go up - or else we all go down.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow next week next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost, without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence they would still be a one-party state because everybody would join the other party.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

It would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily and rapidly as folly.

Believe me the intellectual revolution is going on and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings as traitors... I mean it.

Since Castro took power the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion no freedom of the press no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

The body politic as well as the human body begins to die as soon as it is born and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

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

You may call me a Klansman if you will but potentially every white man is a Klansman as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially economically and politically is concerned and there is no use lying.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising sun.

Political movements always belong to the young.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think excuse me if you'll pardon me American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult which is that the size and scope of government and really the size and scope of politics in our lives has grown uncomfortable unwieldy intrusive and inefficient.

Africans require want the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations study hell.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Political liberty the peace of a nation and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

In politics as in religion it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people but for special interests and we have to stop that.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

The question is why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing on national television that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

Office politics are bloody-minded but weak on content.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.

The way my luck is running if I was a politician I would be honest.

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

Look of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal not merely a gregarious animal but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

You are priests not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he's going to do, even when it's hard - especially when it's hard.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation we all go up or else all go down as one people.

There are no morals in politics, there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

I have no consistency except in politics, and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether

Despotism can only exist in darkness and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere as it has heretofore done almost everywhere.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for those who deny the whole of it.

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run you may lose. And if you tie you do not win.

As compared with the college politician the real article seems like an amateur.

Politics is like football, if you see daylight go through the hole.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

Nakedness is uncomely as well in mind as body and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious tough stuff.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running if I was a politician I would be honest.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

In a republic that paradise of debility the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

Republicans prefer straight talk to politically correct talk!

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part if possible than both the other, or if that cannot be at least than either of them separate.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Political tags - such as royalist communist democrat populist fascist liberal conservative and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

In liberal logic if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

I haven't been very active in politics.

Politics is human beings, it's addition rather than subtraction.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

In politics merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised like a target to a position to be fired at.

I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe with a conviction based on experience that you can fool all of the people all of the time

Jokes of the proper kind properly told can do more to enlighten questions of politics philosophy and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Revolution n. In politics an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Liberals seem to assume that if you don't believe in their particular political solutions then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

To my great disappointment it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield Illinois.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Right now the rest of the world owns $3 trillion more of us than we own of them. In my view it will create political turmoil at some point. ... Pretty soon I think there will be a big adjustment.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

A party of order or stability and a party of progress or reform are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

To rely upon conviction devotion and other excellent spiritual qualities, that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.

A director is a choreographer both politically and creatively.

Battle n. A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles come and join this campaign.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics they don't understand the democratic process they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust oppressive and impolitic.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

There is no gambling like politics.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

The people will save their government if the government itself will allow them.

Politics is applesauce.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

A President needs political understanding to run the government but he may be elected without it.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration, simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage and he expects your absolute loyalty.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking you would have no government.

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring one to talk through and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle this is politics this is anything.

It is easier for women to succeed in business the arts and politics in America than in Europe.

Unlike some politicians I can admit to a mistake.

Politics begin where the masses are not where there are thousands but where there are millions that is where serious politics begin.

Politics in a literary work is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert something vulgar and however something which is impossible to ignore.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew.

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.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.