Quotes About Politics

John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.'

Donald Trump didn't go to Vietnam. He said he had a medical problem. He got a medical deferment. Now his doctor says he's the healthiest man alive.

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye.

Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.

If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Don't worry, Sergey, that's just the way right-wing Republicans express their views.

Knowledge—Zzzzzp! Money—Zzzzzp!—Power! That's the cycle democracy is built on!

Terrorism's religion is politics. It's about interests. Look at who benefits.

Patricia: What they did was stupid and cruel and why I am going to write the president of the United States telling him that if there is any place in this country where nuclear bomb testing should be allowed, it's Corpus Christi, Texas.

Ben's chances in the campaign.

Central governments have always been the greatest danger to mankind.

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.