Quotes About Politics

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.

No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.

Bush has said something new. He said, "If I will be president again, I will be a man of peace and serenity." May the Lord curse the liars, wherever they may be.

ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.

Coolidge's stat was so low; he's ranked in the bottom half of presidents. What I found when I encountered this man was the leader I might like to see today.

Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do.

I've never known a man to be beaten fairly, nor one to be elected, unfairly.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.

If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.

Throughout American history, we have elected presidents who had not been honest man. Warren Harding, Richard Nixon, to some extent, Lyndon Johnson just to name a few.

I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

We have a man [Donald Trump] who understands the frustrations and the aspirations of our fellow citizens.

[Muhammad] Ali had [Jo] Frazier , that man had the joker, Coke had Pepsi and [Donald] Trump had [Barack] Obama, or 16 primary opponents or the entire political establishment.

I would feel safe with my husband as president. I think Barack Obama is a fine man. I think Michelle Obama is a fine woman. This is about who would be better and I think my husband would be better.

That the man in question should be Donald Trump, with all his personal flaws, challenges the United States and the world as never before in human history.

Bernie Sanders is a crazy man.