Quotes About Politics

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.

I am for Obama, all the way. I dont support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because he is an educated black man. He is making black people proud.

Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th century.

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.

I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

A true party-man hates and despises candour.

When our party had only seven men, it already had two principles. First, it wanted to be a party with a true ideology. And second, it wanted to be the one and only power in Germany.

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong. Nor can it pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.