Quotes About Politics

President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Republican papers down there.

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

Fortunately, even sacred holidays commingled with politics that year. Having lost a wager that Stephen A. Douglas would be elected president, a Democrat from nearby Williamsville announced he would pay off his debt by roasting a Thanksgiving ox and issuing "a general invitation to all comers to…digest it.

One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.

The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans

Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers

One of the cost of holding a Federal office was geographic isolation in the nation's capital.

I am against government by crony.

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing

the country is almost ruined with pious white people: such pious politicians as we have just before elections, such pious goings on in all departments of church and state, that a fellow does not know who'll cheat him next.

There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe in it yourselves when it comes to practice.

Greasy or not greasy, they will govern you, when their time comes," said Augustine; "and they will be just such rulers as you make them.

While politicians contend, and men are swerved this way and that by conflicting tides of interest and passion, the great cause of human liberty is in the hands of one...who shall not fail nor be discouraged...

The world of academia was like a fourteenth-century Florence, riven with internecine strife, internal politics and wordless betrayal.