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Quotes About Politics

To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.
~ Lou Reed
Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? You should know that this slogan, this goal, can certainly be achieved.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
Politics is just show business for ugly people.
~ Jay Leno
If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates
~ Howard Zinn
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
~ Unknown
In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.
~ Len Deighton
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
~ Robert Orben
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"
~ Will Rogers
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you
~ Will Rogers
The best example of democracy I can recall is five wolves sitting down to dinner with one sheep.
~ Charles de Montesquieu
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
~ Robert Byrne
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
~ Clarence Darrow
Learn to live in this world with self-respect. You should always cherish some ambition of doing something in this world. But remember that the age of selflessness has ended. A new epoch is set in. All things are now possible because of your being able to participate in the politics and legislature of your country.
~ Unknown
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
~ George Orwell
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger one.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Bush said today he is being stalked. He said wherever he goes, people are following him. Finally, someone told him, 'Psst. That's the Secret Service.'
~ Jay Leno
If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
~ John Cleese
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
~ George Burns
President Bush is trying to put a positive spin on the latest bad economic numbers. Today he declared victory in the 'War on Jobs.'
~ Craig Kilborn
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
~ Edgar Bergen
If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.
~ Harry S Truman
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson