Quotes on politics
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
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John Stuart Mill Quotes
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
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Robert Byrne Quotes
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
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Charles Krauthammer Quotes
Who are these people? (To a tour guide at Monticello after seeing busts of George Washington and Ben Franklin)
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Al Gore Quotes
History is gossip but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
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.
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H.L. Mencken Quotes
If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.
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Vance Packard Quotes
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where they is no river.
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Nikita Khrushchev Quotes
America's responsibility to history is to rid the world of evil.
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George W. Bush Quotes
The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.
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Will Rogers Quotes
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.
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Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
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.
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Woody Allen Quotes
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
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Henry Cate Quotes
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
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Nikita Khrushchev Quotes
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.
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James Freeman Clarke Quotes
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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W.C. Fields Quotes
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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André Malraux Quotes
We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.
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Bob Dole Quotes
Don't vote, it only encourages them.
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Author Unknown Quotes
If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
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Jay Leno Quotes
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.
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Al Gore Quotes
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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Plato Quotes
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
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George E. MacDonald Quotes
How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?
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Author Unknown Quotes
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
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William E. Gladstone Quotes
We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.
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Frank McKinney Hubbard Quotes
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
I appreciate [Florida Governor] Jeb [Bush] - talk about swamping somebody, he knows the definition of "swamp" when it comes to political campaigns.
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George W. Bush Quotes
After all, this is the guy [Saddam Hussein] who tried to kill my dad.
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George W. Bush Quotes
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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George Jean Nathan Quotes
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
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John Adams Quotes
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.
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Emma Goldman Quotes
There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.
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Hermione Gingold Quotes
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
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Stewart Udall Quotes
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
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George Orwell Quotes
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
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Cissy Farenthold Quotes
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
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Leo Rosten Quotes
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
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Mao Zedong Quotes
Politics, n: [Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"]
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Larry Hardiman Quotes
During a campaign the air is full of speeches - and vice versa.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
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John Quinton Quotes
Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
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Author Unknown Quotes
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.
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Meg Greenfield Quotes
George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles.
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Author Unknown Quotes
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
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Emma Goldman Quotes
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.
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Plato Quotes
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
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Clarence Darrow Quotes
I do remain confident in Linda. She'll make a fine labor secretary. From what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly qualified.
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George W. Bush Quotes
In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.
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Dan Quayle Quotes
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.
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Carl Sagan Quotes
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
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George W. Bush Quotes
Truth is not determined by majority vote.
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Doug Gwyn Quotes
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
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Doug Larson Quotes
I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.
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Clarie Sargent Quotes
Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied.
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Edward Cheyfitz Quotes
The candidates are an interesting group, with diverse opinions - for tax cuts and against them, for NAFTA and against NAFTA, for the Patriot Act and against the Patriot Act, in favor of liberating Iraq and opposed to it. And that's just one senator from Massachusetts.
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George W. Bush Quotes
I need to be able to move the right people to the right place at the right time to protect you, and I'm not going to accept a lousy bill out of the United Nations Senate.
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George W. Bush Quotes
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
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Aesop Quotes
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.
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Oscar Ameringer Quotes
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
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Winston Churchill Quotes
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Charles de Gaulle Quotes
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Aristophanes Quotes
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.
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Harold Lowman Quotes
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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P.J. O'Rourke Quotes
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.
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Carl Sandburg Quotes
The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
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William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
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George F. Will Quotes
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.'
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Barack Obama Quotes
My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
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Barack Obama Quotes
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.
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Barack Obama Quotes
I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!
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Christopher Dodd Quotes
I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.
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Christopher Dodd Quotes
The senator [McCain] has got to understand if he's going to have - he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road.
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George W. Bush Quotes
I didn't - I swear I didn't - get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.
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George W. Bush Quotes