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Quotes About Politics

There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.
~ Arnold J. Toynbee
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
~ Will Rogers
I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.
~ Elvis Presley
Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.
~ David Geffen
The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
~ Manning Marable
Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.
~ Lionel Trilling
You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.
~ Anthony Scaramucci
(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.
~ Tammy Bruce
The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.
~ William Shakespeare
The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.
~ George Will
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
~ Thomas Huxley
Socialism is a new form of slavery.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
~ John Jay Chapman
More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.
~ Walter E. Williams
Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
~ Barry Goldwater
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
~ Ronald Reagan
Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.
~ Fisher Ames
[Virginia] has a very sizeable collection of democrats, liberals and moonbats. (Yes, they can be separated.)
~ John Ringo
If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.
~ Andrew Breitbart
If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.
~ Edward Heath
Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
~ Albert Camus
I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.
~ Jonah Goldberg