Quotes About Politics

4. Politicians: Insufferable egotists pretending to be "public servants.

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.

Mr Katter hit out at both the Liberal National and Labor parties. You destroyed the timber industry, the tobacco industry, the fishing industry, the dairy industry and half the sugar mills,he said. We can't farm here because of the Great Barrier Reef. Out west we can't shoot pigs because guns are bad. You can't remove trees, can't use the water out west, can't use the land or improve it. We're not standing still. We're not going forward, so we must be going backwards.

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

Bill Brock, the former Tennessee senator and one-time head of the Republican Party said recently that many Americans choose their favorite channel (or website) not to get just the latest information but "to get the ammo to back up their previously formed opinions." And it was getting harder to separate opinion from fact.

We declare you the new mayor!" declares the crowd. what about the old mayor?" I'll ask. I'm not the one with the big plans!" he'll say.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them." Uh-oh, the reporter thought. Topics like these, he knew, were strictly off-limits. But John persisted. "All they seem to want to do

When Trump called Mexicans "rapists" in the speech announcing his candidacy on June 16, 2015, Priebus called him and said, "You can't talk like that. We've been working really hard to win over Hispanics.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

threw Tove right into the midst of the political whirlpool. Both she and Henry Rein barely escaped prosecution for 'insulting the leader of a friendly foreign power',

When reporters asked Nixon about Martin Luther King, Jr., being in jail, Nixon said, "No comment.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.

It will see that it pays better, from every standpoint, to have healthy, vigorous life than to have that political stagnation which always results when one-half of the population has no share and no interest in the Government.

never liked the atmosphere of Washington. I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought, and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in. So, for the greater part of my life, I have avoided Washington; and even now I rarely spend a day in that city which I do not look upon as a day practically thrown away.

In many cases it seemed to me that the ignorance of my race was being used as a tool with which to help white men into office, and that there was an element in the North which wanted to punish the Southern white men by forcing the Negro into positions over the heads of the Southern whites.

One thing that has taught me to dislike politics is the observation that, as soon as any person or thing becomes the subject of political discussion, he or it at once assumes in the public mind an importance out of all proportion to his or its real merits.

Besides, the general political agitation drew the attention of our people away from the more fundamental matters of perfecting themselves in the industries at their doors and in securing property.

The more I consider the subject, the more strongly I am convinced that the most harmful effect of the practice to which the people in certain sections of the South have felt themselves compelled to resort, in order to get rid of the force of the Negroes' ballot, is not wholly in the wrong done to the Negro, but in the permanent injury to the morals of the white man.

The only criticism any one has any business making against Congress is that it's too good for some of the men we send there. Congress is our great virtue, understand; the congressmen are our fault.

You can get arrested if you live in Russia, and you say that there is war in Ukraine. You can only say "special operation". There is a popular joke in Russia: Tolstoy's War and Peace should be now renamed Special Operation and Peace.

The key thing is to be "Conservative in principle but Liberal in sympathy".