Quotes About Politics

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.

Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, I am not a crook. Jimmy Carter says, I have lusted after women in my heart. President Reagan says, I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

In politics, if you want anything said ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome.

Ousted from the Lincoln ticket, Hamlin—temperate when it came to his own drinking—perhaps was only too happy to comply. And so Johnson—on one of the most important days of his political career—opted for the dubious "hair of the dog" strategy. But sometimes the dog bites back.

The French have a penchant for absolutism, for thinking that things are all one way or all another, which is why their politics are marked by a general inability to compromise and why they tend to hold their personal opinions until the bitter end, even after they have clearly lost an argument.

Time was politicians would lose their lives. Today they give up their honor, dignity and self-worth, willingly.

And that's all this Prime Minister needed, a nice multi-syllable word like destabilization to turn it into a fucking jingle. But he threw us on the defensive in a way that I'll make sure never happens again. Of course the only people listening was Penthouse magazine. Goddamn, what does it mean when the conscience of America airbrushes pussy for a living?

Learn this, all nice and decent people. An election year commence as soon as the first gunshot buss.