Quotes About Politics

In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.

There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is.

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.

American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.

In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other's basic decency instead of our basest fears.