Quotes About Politics

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in this country who are hurting.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Presidents are selected, not elected.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.