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Quotes About Politics

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals -- With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
~ Clarence Darrow
More than one in four U.S. presidents were involved in human trafficking and slavery.
~ Unknown
And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.
~ Clarence Thomas
The mistake a lot of politicians make is forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
~ Claude Pepper
Diagnosticians act in many ways like politicians who may overtly take their differences very seriously but are always willing to shake hands in a smoke-filled room
~ Claude Steiner
So much news about the president's assets, the president's broadsides, the president's teeth, the president's business dealings, the president's shoes: it got boring.
~ Unknown
Pero el afecto necesita un reposo del que la política no dispone.
~ Unknown
I suppose if all I had to do was bleach my hair blond to stop white supremacists from wanting to burn crosses in my yard, I might consider blondness myself. Certainly, the forty-fifth president and his family understand the importance of the blond signifier in their campaign to Make America Great Again.
~ Claudia Rankine
Senator Bernie Sanders, who was the hope of so many, considering Democratic losses after the 2018 midterm elections, remarked, "There are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives about whether or not they wanted to vote for an African-American." How is not voting for someone simply because they're black not racist?
~ Claudia Rankine
The great commander knows that in order to win one needs to know the remote and also the immediate reasons for the war, the capacities of the soldiers, which is to say the social and political make-up of the states, determining the variety, the quality and the character of the men.
~ Claudio Magris
Today, questioning oneself about Europe means asking oneself how one relates to Germany.
~ Claudio Magris
I don't know that I aspired to be in politics, though, no. I mean, this was not a goal of mine. This was not a part of my original life plan. But having done television, and having been able to be in the public eye, and get a platform and a microphone, so to speak -- both figuratively and literally -- I have an opportunity to speak and have people listen.
~ Clay Aiken
I think Washington, in general, is dysfunctional. I think it's high time we put people in Congress who were not beholden to their party, and not beholden to anything but the people who they live around and grew up around, in my case.
~ Clay Aiken
if Richard Nixon is not sincere, he is the most dangerous man in America.
~ Unknown
But I had to look at something else beyond the man—the people who surrounded him—and I felt that Kennedy was surrounded by better people. It was on that basis that I felt that Kennedy would make the best president.
~ Unknown
Why do politicians have one more brain cell than horses do?" Riddles were her favorites, he guessed. He said that he didn't know why. "So they won't shit on the street during parades." He
~ Clifford Irving
It is a fool who believes politicians will end the problems and poverty they have created in the first place. 
~ Clifford Thurlow
Any political affiliation is not a playground for personal interests. People can play with you up to the extent of endangering their lives. But the will to keep on playing is how the game is being played?
~ Unknown
Politicians are heroes too. You can even find their names in major roads and highways.
~ Unknown
The world of politics is like the four seasons of warmth, hatred, reconciliation and remorse. The fifth season is recycling.
~ Unknown