Quotes About Politics

America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.

Brainwash cried Romney, the Governor of Pollution

America this is quite serious

Hannah had spent her teens being scornful of religion, but the Christian churches were now the last line of defence against the indifference and stupidity of successive governments of different political stripes.

They might watch American movies, wear American clothes, even read American books but Bush and the Iraq War have made actual American people social lepers; she only has to open her mouth in some places to feel a wave of loathing directed at her. Katie is weary of pointing out that at least half her countrymen detest their President even more than Europe does, but it's no good.

Ashoka supplemented this general moral and political principle by a dialectical argument based on enlightened self-interest: 'For he who does reverence to his own sect while disparaging the sects of others wholly from attachment to his own sect, in reality inflicts, by such conduct, the severest injury on his own sect.

VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Alliance - In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Revolution - In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

An ambassador is a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given an office by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of an edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.

BALLOT, n. A simple device by which a majority proves to a minority the folly of resistance. Many worthy persons of imperfect thinking apparatus believe that majorities govern through some inherent right; and minorities submit, not because they must, but because they ought.

DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

But a voting-machine that human ingenuity can not pervert, human ingenuity can not invent. That

OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.

Halpin was pretty generally deprecated as an intellectual black sheep who was likely at any moment to disgrace the flock by bleating in metre. The Tennessee Fraysers were a practical folk - not practical in the popular sense of devotion to sordid pursuits, but having a robust contempt for any qualities unfitting a man for the wholesome vocation of politics.

POLITENESS, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

INFLUENCE, n. In politics, a visionary quo given in exchange for a substantial quid.

CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.