Quotes About Politics

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Democracy is the best revenge.

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.

Every country has the government it deserves.

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

We have got to change the political culture in America. We need a political revolution. That means we are working on politics not just three weeks before an election but 365 days a year.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.

A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.

I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them.

Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Politics is downstream from culture.

Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.