Quotes About Politics

Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

The experience of birth is vast. It is a diverse tapestry woven by cultural customs, shaped in personal choices, affected by biological factors, marked by political circumstances. Yet the nature of birth itself prevails in elegant design of simple complexity.

I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

Fifteen or twenty tired men sitting around a table in a smoke-filled room behind locked doors.

That's politics, power: it's all verbal, a continuous blizzard of words. But it's not just speaking, it's making statements. It's action; it's doing something without doing anything.

Still, national politics meant little to him: about as much as paper airplanes would mean to the survivor of a plane crash.

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.

Politics should make a thief, a roué, and a pessimist of anyone but I don't believe I am any of them...

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.