Quotes About Politics

and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.

The same collection of cut-throats, crooks, and incompetents are still steering our planet's various ships of state.

The institutions that have borne us through the centuries have lost their vitality; only with increasing self-delusion can we pretend they are sustainable. Our systems of money, politics, energy, medicine, education, and more are no longer delivering the benefits they once did (or seemed to). Their Utopian promise, so inspiring a century ago, recedes further every year.

reductionistic thinking pervades the entire political spectrum...When no proximate cause is obvious, we tend to feel uncomfortable, often to the extent of finding some reasonable candidate for "the cause" and going to war against that.

Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.

My dear Arnold, we all hope that you have before you a distinguished political career. You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of clichés as the first prize.

Democrats think the glass is half full; Republicans think the glass is theirs.

But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it.

The liberal spirit is the breath of liberal democracy. And the liberal spirit is something instantly recognizable but very difficult to define. It has about it a refreshing common sense... It is even-tempered, and of even tempo... Reform, and constant reform, is a necessity of democracy. But reform in a hurry... is jerry-built, and it blows down in the first storm.

The United States Senate opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

Politics: "poli" (many) and "tics" (blood-sucking parasites).

There is a lot of people who got Confidence, but they are careful who they have it in. We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't.

A political convention is just not a place from which you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

I've been waiting for 7 years for Obama to take my gun and all I got was a job, health insurance and marriage equality.

Future of America. — Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.

This is the first convention of the Space Age — when a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

The Christian Right is neither.

Historically, the common form of revolution has been a not-too-efficient despotism which is overthrown by another non-too-efficient despotism with little or no effect on the public good. Indeed, except for the change in the names of the ruling circles, it would be hard to distinguish one from the other.