Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

politics

A fool and his money are soon elected. 57 more quotes from Will Rogers

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. 74 quotes from Winston Churchill

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. 57 wisdom & wit from Will Rogers

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. 74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. 57 wisdom & wit from Will Rogers

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. 74 thoughts from Winston Churchill

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. 98 more quotes from Mark Twain

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself. 98 sayings from Mark Twain

America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration. 2 other wisdom & wit from Warren G. Harding

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. 3 more sayings from Spiro T. Agnew

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. 14 wisdom & wit from Wendell Phillips

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. 19 thoughts from Charles de Gaulle

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest. 11 other quotes from Aneurin Bevan

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. 7 other wisdom & wit from Louis D. Brandeis

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics. 57 other quotes from Will Rogers

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. 19 other thoughts from Charles de Gaulle

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. 19 more quotes from Charles de Gaulle

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. 74 other quotes from Winston Churchill

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe. 14 quotes from Hedy Lamarr

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. 74 quotes from Winston Churchill

Politics is a blood sport. 11 views from Aneurin Bevan

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. 74 sayings from Winston Churchill

Politics is applesauce. 57 quotes from Will Rogers

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. 39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. 19 quotes from Charles de Gaulle

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. 19 sayings from Jonathan Swift

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. 57 other views from Will Rogers

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. 7 other sayings from Louis D. Brandeis

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail. 57 quotes from Will Rogers

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. 19 thoughts from Woodrow Wilson

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. 19 sayings from Woodrow Wilson

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. 5 thoughts from Albert Pike

Finality is not the language of politics. 75 more sayings from Benjamin Disraeli

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. 21 wisdom & wit from Jane Austen

In politics nothing is contemptible. 75 sayings from Benjamin Disraeli

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. 58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle

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. 12 more wisdom & wit from George MacDonald

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. 8 views from Stephen Leacock

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. 7 quotes from William E. Gladstone

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. 12 wisdom & wit from Frank Zappa

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. 12 quotes from Mao Zedong

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. 12 sayings from Mao Zedong

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. 75 thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. 4 sayings from Oscar Levant

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. 75 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour. 75 other wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics. 75 other sayings from Benjamin Disraeli

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. 24 other sayings from Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. 24 more quotes from W. C. Fields

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. 56 quotes from Khalil Gibran

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. 13 thoughts from Dante Alighieri

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. 13 wisdom & wit from Alexander Hamilton

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. 37 views from Edmund Burke

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. 3 quotes from Pierre Beaumarchais

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. 3 quotes from Edward Kennedy

I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. 36 sayings from Lord Byron

I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is. 8 sayings from Jane Seymour

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. 9 quotes from Barry Goldwater

In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always. 9 other views from Walter Savage Landor

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. 24 thoughts from Franklin D. Roosevelt

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. 12 quotes from Daniel Webster

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. 37 quotes from Edmund Burke

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. 6 other wisdom & wit from Jacob Bronowski

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. 37 more quotes from Edmund Burke

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. 4 quotes from Konrad Adenauer

The secret of getting things done is to act! 13 thoughts from Dante Alighieri

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. 10 quotes from Charles de Secondat

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. 31 other thoughts from Gertrude Stein

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. 22 quotes from Henry Adams

I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me. 3 quotes from George Papandreou

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. 6 views from Harold MacMillan

If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve. 20 quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled. 3 more quotes from George Papandreou

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. 33 other wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. 22 quotes from Henry Adams

Politics are not the task of a Christian. 7 more thoughts from Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. 12 other sayings from George Jean Nathan

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. 22 views from Henry Adams

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. 22 more thoughts from Henry Adams

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. 22 views from Henry Adams

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. 22 thoughts from Henry Adams

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. 9 wisdom & wit from Alfred Adler

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. 16 other quotes from Erich Fromm

A week is a long time in politics. 3 more wisdom & wit from Harold Wilson

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected. 11 other quotes from Clare Boothe Luce

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. 50 other quotes from Robert Frost

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. 105 sayings from Albert Einstein

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity. 3 other thoughts from John Jay Chapman

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. 11 more quotes from Clare Boothe Luce

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. 3 quotes from John Jay Chapman

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. 11 thoughts from Clare Boothe Luce

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. 6 more thoughts from Grover Cleveland

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office. 70 more sayings from Thomas Jefferson

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. 6 sayings from Leo Rosten

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. 10 more quotes from Booker T. Washington

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. 16 quotes from Otto von Bismarck

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin. 14 quotes from Vladimir Lenin

Politics is not an exact science. 16 more sayings from Otto von Bismarck

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. 70 sayings from Thomas Jefferson

Politics is the art of the next best. 16 other thoughts from Otto von Bismarck

Politics is the art of the possible. 16 quotes from Otto von Bismarck

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. 5 more quotes from Lester B. Pearson

Politics ruins the character. 16 thoughts from Otto von Bismarck

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. 16 quotes from Otto von Bismarck

The world is governed by opinion. 11 other views from William Ellery Channing

There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. 14 more views from Vladimir Lenin

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics. 14 quotes from Vladimir Lenin

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I'm beginning to believe it. 14 quotes from Clarence Darrow

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. 26 sayings from Harry S. Truman

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. 11 thoughts from John Stuart Mill

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. 46 other sayings from John F. Kennedy

Politics have no relation to morals. 23 more views from Niccolo Machiavelli

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. 26 more quotes from Harry S. Truman

Half a truth is better than no politics. 52 thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. 16 more sayings from Hubert H. Humphrey

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. 6 thoughts from Mikhail Bakunin

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. 6 other views from Catherine the Great

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. 15 other views from Orson Welles

Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole. 46 views from John F. Kennedy

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. 5 more quotes from Theodore White

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics. 5 other views from Alastair Campbell

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. 16 other quotes from Hubert H. Humphrey

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. 53 views from Honore de Balzac

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics. 16 sayings from Hubert H. Humphrey

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands. 3 quotes from Henry Cabot Lodge

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. 10 other sayings from Emma Goldman

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. 20 sayings from Christopher Lasch

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice. 20 views from Christopher Lasch

Everything is politics. 11 thoughts from Thomas Mann

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. 4 thoughts from Mary McCarthy

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. 10 other views from Emma Goldman

Nothing is irreparable in politics. 14 sayings from Jean Anouilh

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world. 10 more quotes from Emma Goldman

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. 20 other sayings from Christopher Lasch

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left. 20 thoughts from Christopher Lasch

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. 15 more sayings from Reinhold Niebuhr

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. 10 more quotes from Emma Goldman

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. 7 views from John Quincy Adams

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. 3 quotes from Richard Armour

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. 19 quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. 19 quotes from E. B. White

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want. 4 quotes from C. Northcote Parkinson

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. 19 other quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. 4 wisdom & wit from C. Northcote Parkinson

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. 2 more quotes from Thurgood Marshall

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics. 2 quotes from Emmeline Pankhurst

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. 17 quotes from Calvin Coolidge

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

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. 5 views from Leonard Bernstein

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. 50 more views from Napoleon Bonaparte

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable. 2 other views from Charles Edison

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war. 5 other sayings from Maria Montessori

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. 24 quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics. 5 more quotes from Edna Ferber

In politics stupidity is not a handicap. 50 other quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. 50 more sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. 24 more quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson

Politics is the science of urgencies. 2 thoughts from Theodore Parker

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. 20 views from Herbert Hoover

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. 3 quotes from Robertson Davies

Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing. 12 more quotes from Bernard Baruch

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. 5 sayings from Charles Bukowski

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. 4 quotes from Stanley Baldwin

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. 60 more sayings from H. L. Mencken

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. 27 more quotes from Kin Hubbard

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. 23 sayings from T. S. Eliot

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. 19 views from H. G. Wells

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics. 6 more sayings from Francis Parker Yockey

Politics makes me sick. 4 wisdom & wit from William Howard Taft

Politics makes strange bedfellows. 5 other wisdom & wit from Charles Dudley Warner

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you. 63 views from Samuel Johnson

In politics the middle way is none at all. 18 other quotes from John Adams

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. 36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics. 24 other sayings from Adlai E. Stevenson

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. 3 other quotes from Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. 3 other quotes from Mario Puzo

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. 4 thoughts from A. J. Liebling

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. 18 quotes from John Adams

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. 18 quotes from John Adams

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. 24 other thoughts from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's. 13 quotes from Jean Rostand

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...' 6 wisdom & wit from Rutherford B. Hayes

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. 33 views from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. 29 quotes from Groucho Marx

Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. 33 more quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. 29 sayings from Groucho Marx

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. 16 more quotes from Paul Valery

The essential ingredient of politics is timing. 2 more quotes from Pierre Trudeau

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs. 8 more quotes from Alphonse de Lamartine

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. 36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is. 24 thoughts from Adlai E. Stevenson