Quotes About Politics

Everyone knows [George W. Bush] has no clue, but no one there has the courage to say it. I mean, good gawd, the man is as he always has been: barely adequate.

Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control.

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.

Mitt Romney, maybe the most moral and decent man who's ever run for president, ended up being a murderer, somebody who didn't care about animals, and a tax cheat.

I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.

Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.

There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless.

I like David Cameron. He has had a couple of rough statements, but that's okay, I think David Cameron's a good man.

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs of state.

Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he's absolutely right.

It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.