Quotes About Politics

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.

If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists

Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

A black man will be elected President of the United States. I'm sorry, that's in the year 10,000.

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.

Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.

If we only elected good men, we'd never have leaders.

In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.

But I have to warn you that this is the word—'politics'—that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization.

Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were despised in the late twentieth century. Many of the persons who held such opinions were, of course, guilty of the most nefarious conduct themselves, and yet saw no paradox in holding such views because they were not hypocrites themselves-they took no moral stances and lived by none.

There was an odd bending around in back at the extreme limits of culture and politics where back-to-the-land hippies and radical survivalists ended up being the same people, since they spent 99 percent of their lives doing the same stuff.

this is the word—'politics'—that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization.