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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
Mill, John Stuart

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Byrne, Robert

Who are these people? (To a tour guide at Monticello after seeing busts of George Washington and Ben Franklin)
Gore, Al

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.
Mencken, H.L.

America's responsibility to history is to rid the world of evil.
Bush, George W.

The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.
Rogers, Will

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.
Dunne, Finley Peter

I interestingly dated a woman in the Eisenhover administration, briefly, and it was ironic to me because I was trying to do to her what Eisenhover has been doing to the country for the last few years.
Allen, Woody

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
Khrushchev, Nikita

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.
Clarke, James Freeman

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
Fields, W.C.

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.
Dole, Bob

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Bierce, Ambrose

George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.
Gore, Al

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Nathan, George Jean

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geograhy, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give thei
Adams, John

When a child has reached manhood, he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition.
Goldman, Emma

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.
Gingold, Hermione

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
Farenthold, Cissy

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Zedong, Mao

Politics, n: [Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"]
Hardiman, Larry

During a campaign the air is full of speeches - and vice versa.
Unknown, Author

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
Unknown, Author

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
Greenfield, Meg

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

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
Darrow, Clarence

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion.
Sagan, Carl

Truth is not determined by majority vote.
Gwyn, Doug

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Stevenson, Adlai E.

I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.
Sargent, Clarie

Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied.
Cheyfitz, Edward

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop

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.
Ameringer, Oscar

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
Sherman, William Tecumseh

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
Obama, Barack

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
Obama, Barack

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
Obama, Barack

I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!
Dodd, Christopher

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.
Dodd, Christopher