Quotes About Politics

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Democracy is an excellent way of ensuring that nothing much gets done. There are always interests that might get trampled upon [and no elected politician would wish to make permanent enemies by trampling upon others' interests].

But wait till Ike had to deal with de Gaulle, whom I had seen in the Middle East. Giraud then would seem to Ike the acme of rational and complaisant Frenchmen.

Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' someone asked the chaplain. No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

George Washington is the only president who never blamed the previous administration for his troubles.

Ford to City: Drop Dead.

Dewey Defeats Truman.

During a campaign the air is full of speeches - and vice versa.

Women belong in the house... and the Senate.

As Maine goes, so goes the nation.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

Free soil, free men, free speech, Frémont

He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't.

All four pillars of democracy have broken down several years back , so no point of trusting any one of them.

I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

Victory is a political fiction.

Cuius regio eius religio [He who controls the area controls the religion].

Divide et impera [Divide and rule].

All these men who say that the people must govern themselves, really govern the people.

There are no bigger GOONs than politicians.