Quotes About Politics

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. ... Let them come to Berlin

Washington D.C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

In his experience, when a person suggested that someone needed to be elected leader, they often had themselves in mind for the position.

Some folks are born made to wave the flag;Ooh, they're red, white, and blue.And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief,"They point the cannon at you.It ain't me, it ain't me—I ain't no senator's son.It ain't me, it ain't me—I ain't no fortunate one.

If I were a politician, I could prove that monkeys talk.

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Politics are popularly supposed to govern the direction, and statesmen to be the guardian angels, of Civilization. It seems to me that they have little or no power over its growth. They are of it, and move with it. Their concern is rather with the body than with the mind or soul of a nation. One needs not to be an engineer to know that to pull a man up a wall one must be higher than he; that to raise general taste one must have better taste than that of those whose taste he is raising.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chicken shit, slimy, little bastard with a bright future in politics.

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If you think all these terrible things about Obama, he asked the woman, how can you possibly be undecided? Because if McCain dies, Palin would be president, she said.

John Kerry was saddled with more baggage than a curbside porter at Dulles airport.

For the next ten days, Hillary would come at Obama, guns blazing, armed with a line that, in the context of her new persona, was so well pitched and perfectly modulated that it almost sounded like poetry.

Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.

You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

Will you at last take your red-conservative and blue-progressive-colored glasses off your blinkered consciousness and SEE who really is destroying your country and your constitutional freedoms? It ain't ISIS or al-Qaeda.

Ideological ambiguity has been a hallmark of Italian politics since the foundation of the republic in 1946.

The essence of dietrologia is that it dismisses the notion that anyone could act purely for reasons of moral conviction.