Quotes About Politics

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man….

Government got too big—too powerful. Agencies like the IRS had entirely too much power.

holes in the mayor's office.

Politicians are . . . politicians. It is the nature of government to become more intrusive, more controlling of people's lives and their property. Yours, ours now, perhaps less than many others. But who knows what the future may hold?

They'll never get the chance to do this again in Ireland," the man said, steel in his voice. "The first politician who stands up and announces he's in favor of gun control is very likely to get shot.

It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force

Every film is political. Most political of all are those that pretend not to be: 'entertainment' movies. They are the most political films there are because they dismiss the possibility of change. In every frame they tell you everything's fine the way it is. They are a continual advertisement for things as they are.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Churchill was in the lavatory in the House of Commons and his secretary knocked on the door and said: Excuse me Prime Minister, but the Lord Privy Seal wishes to speak to you. After a pause Churchill replied: Tell His Lordship: I'm sealed on The Privy and can only deal with one shit at a time

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator.

No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Il migliore argomento contro la democrazia è una conversazione di cinque minuti con l'elettore medio.

When can we have an election like the Americans – no rowdiness or fighting or fuss and all seats contested on the same