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Quotes About Politics

The day the nation voted on whether I'd live or die, I woke up with a headache.
~ S.E. Bennett, Cipher
The only thing what happens in the Houses of Parliament is the debate about foxes, badgers and moles
~ Wayne Wignall, Earth and Mars
We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.
~ Michael Monroe, Afterlife
Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can't be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book." Sharon L Reddy, Worldcon, 1995.
~ Sharon L. Reddy
Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying.
~ Steven Magee
I dream of a world where Science shapes the structure of a society, rather than politics.
~ Abhijit Naskar
The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.
~ Jean Chretien
A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.
~ Winston Churchill
All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.
~ Greg Bear
The smile of a politician is strong and friendly, but noncommittal.
~ Mason Cooley
Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.
~ Muriel Spark
But the biggest fake of the year, Paul Begala's last smile
~ Dennis Miller
I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
~ Ian McDiarmid
If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
~ John Adams
If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.
~ Pol Pot
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
~ H. L. Mencken
Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.
~ Pericles
Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.
~ Vladimir Putin
The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established.
~ Carroll Quigley
The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.
~ David Suzuki
A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.
~ Farhan Akhtar
Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.
~ Jacque Fresco