Quotes About Politics

I grew up in Illinois. If you were in Chicago, you were a Democrat. You get out to the suburbs and central Illinois, you're a Republican.

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

No sooner does an American president take his oath of office than the speculation begins: Will he be reelected in four years' time? If not, who will succeed him? A member of his own party? The other party?

Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.

The very fact Boris Johnson is the favourite to succeed May says everything about how vacuous and morally bankrupt our politics has become.

I am not aware how you succeed politically when you insult women, who far more than men consistently provide you with great margins of support.

Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.

If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that'd be too bad. That'd be a shame.

In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision.

Those who make their patriotism a vehicle for intolerance are very dangerous.

The more extreme conservatives will embrace religion and nationalism to a higher degree.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

THE CAUSE of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.

Anyone who says they are not interested in politics is like a drowning man who insists he is not interested in water.

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think

A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.

Damn and dump this Exit poll result in the garbage.

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.

Politicians talking about honesty is like prostitutes talking about virginity

There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men.

Vote for Nobody because Nobody Cares,