Politics

65 quotes.

• Politics is the art of the possible.

  Otto von Bismarck

• Man is by nature a political animal.

  Aristotle

• In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

• A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

  Harry S Truman

• A radical is a person with both feet firmly planted in the air.

  Anonymous

• All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

  Edmund Burke

• Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

  George Jean Nathan

• Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: "No man should have so much."

  Phelps Adams

• Compromise 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 Lowell

• Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

  John Simon

• Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.

  Senator Soaper

• Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

  George Bernard Shaw

• Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you dont think.

  Anonymous

• Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

  Laurence J. Peter

• Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

  H. L. Mencken

• Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

  E. B. White

• Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

  H. L. Mencken

• Diplomacy --- the art of saying "Nice doggie" 'til you can find a stick.

  Wynn Catlin

• Don't vote, it only encourages them.

  Anonymous

• Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

  Maria Montessori

• Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.

  Albanian Proverb

• Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressperson can.

  Anonymous

• For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

  Bob Wells

• Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

  Gore Vidal

• I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

  Will Rogers

• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

  Will Rogers

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

  Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate

• I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

  William F. Buckley

• I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

  George Wallace

• If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

  Robert Novak

• If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: PRESIDENT CAN'T SWIM.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

• In political discussion heat is in inverse proportion to knowledge.

  J. G. C. Minchin

• It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

  Mark Twain

• It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

  Voltaire (1694-1778)

• Join in the new game that's sweeping the country. It's called "Bureaucracy" Everybody stands in a circle. The first person to do anything loses.

  Anonymous

• Lighthouse: A tall building on the seashore in which the government maintains a lamp and the friend of a politician.

  Anonymous

• Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise.

  Winston Churchill

• No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

  Judge Gideon J. Tucker

• No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.

  George Smith Patton

• Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

  Ron Nesen

• Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

• Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.

  Richard M. Nixon

• Our elections are free--it's in the results where eventually we pay.

  Bill Stern

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

  Nikita Khruschev

• Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

  Arthur C. Clarke

• Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

  Ronald Reagan

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

  John Kenneth Galbraith

• Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

  Henry Adams

• Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

  William Proxmire

• Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  Lord Acton

• Pro is to con as progress is to Congress.

  Anonymous

• Republicans employ exterminators. Democrats step on bugs.

  Anonymous

• Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

  Richard M. Nixon

• Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

  Will Rogers

• That government is best which governs least.

  Henry David Thoreau

• The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

  Abbie Hoffman

• The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

  William H. Borah

• The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

  Lily Tomlin

• The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

  Alexander Haig

• There is a certain inevitability to a couple of things. Death and taxes come to mind. However, death doesn't get worse every time the legislators come together.

  Anonymous

• There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

  Will Rogers

• Today the nations of the world may be divided into two classes - the nations in which the government fears the people, and the nations in which the people fear the government.

  Amos R. E. Pinochet

• We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex -- but Congress can.

  Cullen Hightower

• When policy fails try thinking.

  Anonymous

• With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke.

  Anonymous

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