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Quotes About Politics

I'm of the school that you've got to show a distinction between Democrats and Republicans. And in order to have the base energized, you've got to show that the party stands for something.
~ Jim Inhofe
Sarah Huckabee stands in front of the country and lies every single day.
~ Omarosa Manigault Newman
Resistance to Brexit is the logic of everything Labour stands for.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
I don't have courage in my convictions and I'm not interested in serious things or politics: if you're doing an hour of standup, you should talk about a few serious things.
~ Alex Horne
Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.
~ Walther Rathenau
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
~ Will Rogers
No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.
~ William H. Seward
A government is the most dangerous threat to man
~ Ayn Rand
I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.
~ Steve Earle
If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
~ Will Durant
In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.
~ Will Rogers
The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.
~ Henry A. Wallace
All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.
~ Jesse Helms
No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.
~ Charles Grandison Finney
I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.
~ George W. Plunkitt
Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power of their opinion.
~ Ludwig Lewisohn
Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.
~ Neville Chamberlain
If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.
~ Ray Bradbury
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
~ Lysander Spooner
It is imperative that good people, men and women of principle, be involved in the political process; otherwise we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
[on the Republican party] A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future.
~ Jimmy Carter
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
~ Kin Hubbard
I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.
~ Thomas Jefferson