Quotes About Politics

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

If the Crusades were not politics, we should have to narrow the meaning of the word very considerably.

I think the proposition still holds good that men of letters who aspire to high distinction do well not to disdain altogether the politics of their time.

It is not the business of a man of letters to take his politics either from a Monarch or a Mob, or to push his fortunes—slightly to alter a celebrated phrase—by those services which demagogues render to crowds.

Sycophants, therefore, can dance attendance on the Many as easily and as mischievously as on the One.

What real man of letters that ever ventured into the arid and somewhat vulgar domain of Party-politics has not felt the same feeling of revulsion, the same longing for the water-brooks?

Politics do not necessarily mean party politics, though in this country, at this moment, the one runs dangerously near to implying the other.

There have been seasons in the history of the human race, melancholy seasons for the human mind, the "evil days" spoken of by Milton, when men of letters could not, with any self-respect, mix in politics. How much more highly we should think of Seneca if that literary Stoic had not been a minister of Nero.

That politicians pure and simple are becoming less imbued with the literary spirit is, I think, certain, and it is to be regretted, because polite Politics are almost as much to be desired as polite Literature.

Mostly what is called political science seems to me a device, invented by university teachers, for avoiding that dangerous subject politics, without achieving science.

When a man is out of politics, let him stay out.

Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.

Alfred E. Neuman

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

Incumbent Congresswoman Bustos has proven during her time in Washington that she doesn't understand or feel the pain of middle class families. We need a true representative fighting for us in Washington, and incumbent Congresswoman Cheri Bustos has refused to act.

There's really a fundamental political corruption problem that put Washington completely out of touch with the people.

I do not want to stay in Washington.

Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

If you like Obama, if you like a Washington that offers free stuff and taxing the rich, that's what you get. I don't see him evolving as a president.