Browsing Topic Best Politicians And Politics Quotes

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

I’m okay.

[…] you got a decrepit electoral political system that is colonized by big money, but you still have to be able to intervene and try to stay in contact with those few politicians who are concerned about poor and working people.

Everyone comes up to me and says, ‘I would vote for you if you had a penis.’

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The President of the United States summoned his mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders…tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

I am a very proud daughter. Obviously to be able to see this transpiring, to watch him achieve so much as a politician – and we’re certainly not a family of politicians, and politics is certainly not our family business – it’s been amazing.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.