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Quotes About Politics

History is past politics and politics present history.
~ John Seeley
More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles bills and proclamations.
~ John Barth
'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.
~ G. Willow Wilson
And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid
~ John Cornyn
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
~ James Madison
I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.
~ Mary Cheney
How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.
~ William Shakespeare
A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."
~ Mary Elizabeth Lease
This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.
~ Jello Biafra
A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
~ William Butler Yeats
America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad.
~ Chris Christie
I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.
~ Richard M. Nixon
Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
~ Taslima Nasrin
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.
~ Al Franken
Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.
~ Ernest Hollings
I look at Bill Clinton, the way I look at Bill Gates. As long as my Microsoft stock is going up, I don't care what Bill Gates does in the privacy of his own home.
~ Will Smith
Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.
~ Eleanor Mondale
You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.
~ Johnny Isakson
I believe Donald Trump is the best guy for president; and I'm not going to shy away and I take the risk. I could just stay home and don't talk about any candidate.
~ Joe Arpaio
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
~ Plato
America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.
~ Mark Twain
You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the 'architect' America just hired - President Obama - to rebuild from the ashes.
~ Frank Schaeffer