Quotes About Politics

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]

Os políticos nunca se atrevem a criticar o povo, que muitas vezes é vil e cobarde e insensato, nunca o censuram nem lhe repreendem a conduta, antes o elogiam invariavelmente, quando pouco costuma ter de elogiável, seja o de que sítio for.

De la libertad se puede prescindir. De hecho es lo primero de lo que los ciudadanos con miedo están dispuestos a prescindir. Tanto que a menudo exigen perderla, que se la quiten, no volver a verla ni en pintura, nunca más, y así aclaman a quien va a arrebatársela y después votan por él.

He'll be a minister in Spain some day, or, at the very least, ambassador to Washington, he's exactly the kind of pretentious fool with just a thin veneer of cordiality that the Right produces by the dozen and which the Left reproduces and imitates whenever they're in power, as if they were the victims of some form of contagion.

Words, words, words … There is always a higher purpose, a greater goal at the end of the road, a nobler cause, a better justification to dress up the final aim, which is still to take power. Politicians always find arguments and excuses to talk about the only thing that interests them: power.

En esto de la política me sucede como en el fútbol: tienes que ser de un equipo; de otra manera, no hay emoción.

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

And yet wrong steps have to be taken sometimes lest some worse peril befall us; that is the great paradox of politics, and no man can say with surety whether present wrong-doing is better and safer in the end than the possibility of that imagined peril.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

The practical statesman took precedence over the uncompromising prophet.

Soon, a national and international feminist movement was challenging the idea that what happened to men was political but what happened to women was cultural; that the first could be changed but the second could not. - Gloria Steinem

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Fourteen members of the House of Representatives got stuck in an elevator together, and it ended badly. They got out.

We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?

I looked up the word politics in the dictionary. It's actually a combination of two words: poli, which means many, and tics, which means bloodsuckers.

The entire Hamas Charter, from its preamble to the last article, pursues only one purpose: the violent elimination of Israel.

The U.N. and its leftist friends discover that Hamas has been hiding rockets in U.N. facilities, and then applaud as U.N. officials

Alexis de Tocqueville.

Lincoln dumped his bland second-in-command, Hannibal Hamlin, for Johnson

Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

They're crooked as corkscrews, the lot of them!

The host took care to produce one or another of these whenever the current subjects seemed about used up, so that the conversation gathered new life and at the same time steered clear of political arguments, which are hindersome to both ingestion and digestion.