Quotes About Politics

A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution." [ Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the forty-ninth A.N.C. National Conference , Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994]

I wondered--not for the first time--whether one was ever justified in neglecting the welfare of one's own family in order to fight for the welfare of others. Can there be anything more important than looking after one's aging mother? Is politics merely a pretext for shirking one's responsibilities, an excuse for not being able to provide in the way one wanted?

One of the mistakes which some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies.

In love, unlike politics, caution is not usually a virtue.

The major event facing the country in 1958 was the general election – 'general' only in the sense that three million whites could participate, but none of the thirteen million Africans.

It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

Governor Romney may be running for CEO, I'm running for President

Hopefully, Donald Trump is just warming up. There is a lot of swamp to drain.

El agua que bebo, la comida que como, la ropa que uso, la cama donde duermo; todo está determinado por la política, sea ésta buena o mala. La

El enemigo dice es el país el que tiene la culpa como si los países fueran hombres.

United States: the country where liberty is a statue.

Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.

There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.

They looked like good people, but deep down they were pieces of shit. They often found they way into politics, and they talked about God, family values and country. They were the new cavaliers of the Catholic culture.

He who establishes a tyranny and does not kill Brutus, and he who establishes a democratic regime and does not kill the sons of Brutus, will not last long.

Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.