Quotes About Politics

Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

He's not just the most powerful man in labor," Robert Kennedy had said in the wake of Hoffa's announcement; "he's the most powerful man in the country, next to the President.

It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool party man. I don't know just what party I am in right now, but I am for the party.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.

How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party

I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.

You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.

States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.