Quotes About Politics

Washington newspaper men know everything.

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.

Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.

Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to (Democratic Senator Tim Johnson)? ...I know what this [Republican] party is capable of.

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.

There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency

Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.

You can always judge a man by what he eats, and therefore a country in which there is no free lunch is no longer a free country.

And Donald Trump? That man literally has people shouting the n word at his rallies and he doesn't address it, which is astounding to me. He's a terrible person.

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!