Quotes for Politics.

• Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and all for the same reason. ~José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, translated from Portuguese
• We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ~Martin L. Gross, A Call for Revolution, 1993
• We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
• All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. ~Albert Einstein
• 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. ~H.L. Mencken, 1956
• What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? ~Abraham Lincoln
• 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
• A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ~Leonard Bernstein, The New York Times, 30 October 1988
• Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. ~Saul Bellow
• In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. ~Charles de Gaulle
• Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato
• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ~Nikita Khrushchev
• Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ~William E. Gladstone, 1866
• When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow
• George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles. ~Author Unknown
• Truth is not determined by majority vote. ~Doug Gwyn
• An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ~George Eliot, Felix Holt, Chapter 5 (Thanks Julie!)
• Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. ~Ernest Benn
• We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ~Stewart Udall
• The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
• A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio speech, 26 October 1939
• Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton
• A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. ~Leo Rosten
• Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
• A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ~Alfred E. Wiggam
• Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. ~Robertson Davies
• Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. ~John Kenneth Galbraith, New York Times, 8 October 1989
• The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is... the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Democratic National Convention, 18 August 1956
• The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. ~Adlai E. Stevenson
• I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952
• Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~Doug Larson
• The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. ~Maureen Murphy
• I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. ~Cissy Farenthold
• 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. ~Oscar Ameringer
• Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? ~Robert Orben
• Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. ~Author Unknown
• Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt. ~Woodrow Wilson
• I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~Charles de Gaulle
• Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork. ~Harold Lowman
• 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, The Republic
• The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII
• The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win. ~Will Rogers
• There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere. ~Hermione Gingold
• I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
• If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~Jay Leno
• Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. ~Winston Churchill
• If God had been a Liberal there wouldn't have been Ten Commandments, there would have been Ten Suggestions. ~Malcolm Bradbury, After Dinner Game, 1982
• There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. ~Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
• All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats. ~Groucho Marx
• In 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. Mencken
• History is gossip but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ~Oscar Wilde
• Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office? ~Robert Brault,
• The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. ~Clare Boothe Luce
• Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
• If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat. ~Vance Packard
• Mudslinging – In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.' ~Richard Turner (1937-2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. "The Mudge," from "The Curmudgeon's Short Dictionary of Modern Phrases"
• A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~Texas Guinan
• Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary,1911
• Politics, n: [Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"] ~Larry Hardiman
• If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. ~Emma Goldman
• If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. ~Will Rogers
• How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America? ~Author Unknown
• 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. ~Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Philosophy, 1900
• There ought to be one day - just one -when there is open season on senators. ~Will Rogers
• Overheard in a Washington D.C. confessional: "Bless me, Father, for sins have been committed." ~Robert Brault,
• Midas, they say, possessed the art of old Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease -Touch themwith gold, they'll turn to what you please. ~John Wolcot
• We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in. ~Will Rogers
• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop
• A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question. ~André Malraux
• Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together. ~Sean O'Casey
• 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. ~Carl Sandburg
• The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
• He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't. ~Author Unknown
• Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. ~Thomas Jefferson
• 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. ~George E. MacDonald
• A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature. ~Murray Kempton
• They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. ~Clare Boothe Luce
• If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner. ~Lindsey Nelson
• Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. ~Walter Lippmann
• A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. ~Woodrow Wilson
• Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. ~John Stuart Mill
• The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely. ~Lyman Bryson
• During a campaign the air is full of speeches - and vice versa. ~Author Unknown
• 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. ~Meg Greenfield
• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. ~P.J. O'Rourke
• Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~George Jean Nathan
• Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. ~Robert Byrne
• The Christian Right is neither. ~Author Unknown
• Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. ~James Harvey Robinson, The Human Comedy, 1937
• A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. ~James Freeman Clarke, Sermon
• I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be. ~M.M. Coady
• Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. ~Winston Churchill
• 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. ~Dan Quayle
• Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. ~George Will
• Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied. ~Edward Cheyfitz
• When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. ~John Gardner
• Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ~Mao Zedong
• The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. ~Oscar Levant

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