Politics Quotes
Sad Quotes about Politics

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone
I love not to mix with it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Politics is 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 religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- John F. Kennedy

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken

Politics have no relation to morals.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
- Charles de Gaulle

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's
country or the electorate.
I prefer to betray the electorate.
- Charles de Gaulle

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth
is rarely a politician's objective.
Election and power are.
- Cal Thomas

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
- Sydney Pollack

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 MacDonald

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

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
- Martin L. Gross

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
- Ralph Nader

The flood of money that gushes into politics today
is a pollution of democracy.
- Theodore White

In politics the middle way is none at all.
- John Adams

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
- Mao Tse-Tung

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
- Ambrose Bierce

Politics, it seems to me, for years,
or all too long,
has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
- Richard Armour

In politics nothing is contemptible.
- Benjamin Disraeli

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in
politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- Plato

Radical changes in world politics leave America with
a heightened responsibility to be,
for the world, an example of a genuinely free,
democratic, just and humane society.
- Pope John Paul II

The largest party in America, by the way,
is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans.
It's the party of non-voters.
- Robert Reich

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
- Milton Friedman

Vote for the man who promises least;
he'll be the least disappointing.
- Bernard Baruch

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution...
revolution is but thought carried into action.
- Emma Goldman

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who
maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
- Dante Alighieri

The world is governed by opinion.
- William Ellery Channing

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

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate.
Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
- Bill Vaughan

It is enough that the people know there was an election.
The people who cast the votes decide nothing.
The people who count the votes decide everything.
- Joseph Stalin

When bad men combine, the good must associate;
else they will fall one by one,
an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- Edmund Burke

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.
- Dick Durbin

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power,
it is called a democracy.
- Charles de Secondat

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise,
we don't believe in it at all.
- Noam Chomsky

The beef industry has contributed to more American
deaths than all the wars of this century,
all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
- Neal Barnard

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought
of giving government the power to control men's minds.
- Thurgood Marshall

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children.
They did not want public office.
- Herbert Hoover

You better take advantage of the good cigars.
You don't get much else in that job.
- Thomas P. O'Neill

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence.
Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
- William E. Gladstone

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
- Daniel J. Boorstin

I don't make jokes.
I just watch the government and report the facts.
- Will Rogers

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must
say I have climbed my last political mountain.
- George C. Wallace

You may think the president is all-powerful,
but he is not.
He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
- Barbara Bush

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
- George Will

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
- Henry B. Adams

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential
and Congressional campaigns,
the U.S.
government is virtually up for sale.
- John W. Gardner

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

I think there is one higher office than president and
I would call that patriot.
- Gary Hart

Voting is a civic sacrament.
- Theodore Hesburgh

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
- Emma Goldman

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell
in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
- Caskie Stinnett

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -
he promised Dad he'd go straight.
- John F. Kennedy

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
- A. J. Liebling

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty,
but in Chicago it's a sport.
- Dick Gregory

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.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert,
in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
- Milton Friedman

We didn't actually overspend our budget.
The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.
- Frank Howard Clark

A healthy democracy requires a decent society;
it requires that we are honorable,
generous, tolerant and respectful.
- Charles W. Pickering

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

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.
It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and
civilized nations together.
- Daniel Webster

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
- Carter Glass

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
- Albert Pike

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get
tired of doing the hard work you already did.
- Newt Gingrich

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
- John W. Gardner

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
- J. William Fulbright