Quotes About Politics

This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't be all that bad.

We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn't funny. Dumb is when you say something and the whole room goes, 'What did he say?'

Every week Republicans are excited about a new candidate because the one they liked last week turned out to be a moron.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

I worship the quicksand he [Richard Nixon] walks in.

Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die. - Cersei Lannister

And the thing about my jokes is, they don't hurt anybody. You can take 'em or leave 'em - you can say they're funny or they're terrible or they're good, or whatever, but you can just pass 'em by. But with Congress, every time they make a joke, it's a law! And every time they make a law, it's a joke!

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

Besides if people really want to support the troops they would vote democrat.

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

Freedom of speech can be just as deadly as the right to bear arms.

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible

Somebody start talking about politics so I can fall back asleep...

No, it's the same people who are always in power, Vera. Sometimes they call themselves communists, sometimes capitalists, sometimes devoutly religious—whatever they need to be to hang on to power. The former communists in Russia are the same people who own all the industries now. They're the real rip-off merchants. But the professional middle classes, people like Valentina's husband, have been hardest hit.