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Quotes About Politics

Life isn't fair, but government must be.
~ Ann Richards
I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.
~ Rosalynn Carter
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
~ Andre Malraux
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
~ Theresa May
I've killed lots of Arabs in my life - and there's no problem with that.
~ Naftali Bennett
It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
~ Jackie Mason
The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.
~ Mitch McConnell
The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.
~ Paul Keating
Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea
~ Dennis Prager
If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
~ Anselm Kiefer
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
~ Bill Griffith
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
~ Thomas Sowell
The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.
~ Neil Kinnock
England is no longer controlled by Britons, we are under the invisible Jewish dictatorship, a dictatorship that can be felt in every sphere of life
~ Nesta Helen Webster
The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life
~ Roy Jenkins
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
~ Cullen Hightower
You know, I've spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."
~ H. L. Mencken
Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.
~ Paulo Coelho
The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
~ Tacitus
The Shallow Faith of the Founding Fathers The founding fathers were politicians and philosophers, churchmen and doubters. They were well acquainted with history, theology,
~ Jeremiah Johnson
Secrecy is an instrument of conspiracy; it ought not, therefore, to be the system of a regular government.
~ Jeremy Bentham
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
~ Jeremy Bentham