Quotes About Politics

In India all politicians, except members of the Gandhi family, have to protect their base.

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

Suppose your were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government.

In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

We have the best government that money can buy.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

The lead singer of Creed says he won't endorse President Obama. Well that settles it -- Obama will not win the 1998 presidential election.

Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error of plus or minus the facts.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.

Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn't get elected, he'd go back to acting.

In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.

I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.