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Quotes About Politics

Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.
~ John Nance Garner
Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.
~ Robert Orben
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
~ Alfred Adler
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
~ H. G. Wells
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.
~ George Lakoff
I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.
~ Johann Lamont
Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors
~ Plato
politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
Fear is the politicians dance partner.
~ Penn Jillette
I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
~ Rahul Gandhi
Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.
~ Bob Ehrlich
To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word.
~ David Steel
Personally, I believe there's a limitation to how much politics can change the world--but there's no limitation to how much individuals can change the world.
~ Mariane Pearl
Those who can't teach - administrate. Those who can't administrate - go into politics.
~ H. L. Mencken
It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
~ Bob Geldof
Since politics — until recently — has been a man's world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.
~ Bertha Knight Landes
You're extending hospitality, and hospitality is a big part of how politics works.
~ Kurt Meyer
I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.
~ Shane Claiborne
I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.
~ Will Rogers
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
~ Jean Rostand
Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.
~ Bertrand Russell
In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.
~ Edward Brooke
There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
~ Kathleen Wynne
A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.
~ Fred Thompson