Quotes About Politics

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they're stupid.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar.

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.

In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps.

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Conservatism is the politics of reality

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.