Quotes About Politics

Margaret Thatcher: 'Socialism is great—but eventually you run out of other people's money.

A seventeenth-century English politician once famously said, 'a diplomat is an honest man sent abroad to lie for the good of his country.

The Dictator's Handbook, written by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, and Alastair Smith,

the only people qualified to help govern are those who have no interest in doing so.

Because in your political system, neither brilliance, nor even basic competence, seem to be prerequisites for getting elected to an office. Instead, the skills required seem to be popularity, and an ability to lie shamelessly with every breath, make false promises, and trash your opponents.

Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who

Democrats were seen as the party who really cared. Republicans the party of wealthy assholes.

Which brings to mind a quote from Margaret Thatcher: 'Socialism is great—but eventually you run out of other people's money.

We hang the petty thieves. The master thieves we appoint to public office." —Aesop "Any

They weren't the smartest or best trained that humanity had to offer, and they didn't have the best judgment. The truly brilliant, truly gifted, wanted little to do with politics.

Trying to get Congress to pull in one direction is worse than herding cats. It's herding self-interested, narcissistic, opportunistic cats. Who only care about getting reelected, no matter how much they pretend to care about their constituencies.

Trying to get Congress to pull in one direction is worse than herding cats. It's herding self-interested, narcissistic, opportunistic cats.

And when all was said and done, they were nothing more than civilians who managed to get donors excited enough to give them money, and then win a popularity contest. They weren't the smartest or best trained that humanity had to offer, and they didn't have the best judgment. The truly brilliant, truly gifted, wanted little to do with politics.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so." —Gore Vidal

Politics, noun: [Poly 'many' + tics 'blood-sucking parasites']" ?—Larry Hardiman "We hang the petty thieves. The master thieves we appoint to public office." ?—Aesop "Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so." ?—Gore Vidal

How many times had politicians, elected solely on charisma and domestic policy expertise, made tragic blunders, totally avoidable tragic blunders, leaving the soldiers in the field to twist in the winds of political expediency? Spilling

But whatever you choose to believe about the US, believe this: China has become a totalitarian state, and its citizens don't have a fraction of the freedoms that we have here. And don't be fooled by the propaganda. The US isn't perfect, by any means, but it's still a bastion of liberty that continues to be a positive force in the world.

Presidents could be fickle and arbitrary. Each new one with wildly different visions and priorities. And when all was said and done, they were nothing more than civilians who managed to get donors excited enough to give them money, and then win a popularity contest. They weren't the smartest or best trained that humanity had to offer, and they didn't have the best judgment. The truly brilliant, truly gifted, wanted little to do with politics. Cargill

The founding fathers had the right idea. They never envisioned professional politicians. They wanted citizen legislators, leaving their farms for a few years to serve their fellow man. A civic responsibility like jury duty. But under our current system, you almost have to be a megalomaniac to have interest in entering the sewer that is politics. And success in this realm requires that backstabbing, shamelessness, lying, and manipulation become an art form.

POLITICS (noun): Poly, meaning "many" plus Tics, meaning "blood-sucking parasites." —Larry Hardiman "I believe that any politician who comes to power, in part, through his skill in debate and public speeches, who is agile in handling questions at news conferences, with a glistening TV or radio image, has the conversational talents to be a natural liar." —Paul Ekman, Telling Lies

a diplomat is an honest man sent abroad to lie for the good of his country.

Neville Chamberlain, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in a letter.

Roosevelt is dead: a man who would never tell the truth when a lie would serve him just as well.

Europeans have been deflating the language of anti-fascism ahead of a time when they might need it.