Quotes About Politics

he had died as late as the New Year of 1939, he would, as Paul Addison says, 'perhaps be remembered today as the most illustrious and interesting failure in twentieth-century British politics'. Certainly until his apotheosis he was more often seen as an 'interesting failure' than as the subject for a study in greatness.

right: profound un-understanding of others persisted throughout Churchill's life. Hindered by that obtusity, he had discovered the extreme vulnerability of his own position, and the harsh reality of politics. The truth was painfully simple: he had too many enemies, too few friends, and almost no popular support.

Texan bluntness by Lyndon Johnson: with a certain kind of man, you'd rather have him 'on the inside pissing out than on the outside pissing in

Wouldn't things look much better for the human race if we no longer had history, at least no political history? The human being then would act more in accordance with the energies he possesses at any given time; for as things stand today, the example that now and then makes one person better makes a thousand others worse.

The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.

the politicians have inherited the stone age syndrome of the tribal chieftains, who take for granted that they can rule their people only by making them hate and fight all other tribes," Alfvén continued. "If we have the choice of being governed by problem generating trouble makers, or by problem solvers, every sensible man of course would prefer the latter.

When the computers developed, they would take over a good deal of the burden of the politicians, and sooner or later would also take over their power,

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

[On World War II:] We could not indulge in a Seven Years War. A king can perhaps do that, but you cannot have such a protracted struggle in a democracy in the face of mounting casualties.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'