Quotes About Politics

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

It is easier to fool the people, than to convince them they have been fooled. No man's life,liberty, and property are safe while the legislature is in session.

Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.

Two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind—politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.

all democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it

congress - that great, benevolent asylum for the helpless

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities.

In light matters--matters of small consequence, like religion and politics and such things--he never acquired a conviction that could survive a disapproving remark from a cat.

I sometimes wonder if our world leaders are very smart and just putting us on, or very stupid and mean it.

There are," said Twain, "certain sweet-smelling, sugarcoated lies current in the world which all politic men have apparently tacitly conspired together to support and perpetuate… We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express, and another one -- the one we use -- which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy.

We have the best government money can buy.

diplomacy is simply the name we have agreed to give to lying about national affairs. I

The voyagers visited the Natchez Indians, near the site of the present city of that name, where they found a 'religious and political despotism, a privileged class descended from the sun, a temple and a sacred fire.' It must have been like getting home again; it was home with an advantage, in fact, for it lacked Louis XIV.

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere. - A Tramp Abroad

RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR--[Written about 1870.]

their form of government in such a manner as they may think expedient." Under that gospel, the citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor.

but good-hearted and companionable, obedient to their parents and the priest; and as they grew up they became properly stocked with narrowness and prejudices got at second hand from their elders, and adopted without reserve; and without examination also—which goes without saying. Their religion was inherited, their politics the same. John Huss and his sort might find fault with

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, unless, of course, you are congress.

Yo estaba en la creencia de que un mecanismo de gobierno como el de un Estado acabaría con la racha de prosperidad y quería largarme de allí. Pensaba que las acciones mineras que poseía valdrían pronto cien mil dólares, y si alcanzaban esa cotización antes que se aprobase la Constitución, las vendería y me pondría a cubierto de la rutina financiera que el cambio de gobierno iba a traer sobre el país.

I know Mischa, but you know how the politburo runs. If I say one word of this in there, I'll be out of my job the next day.' Remember, Gorbachev only became general secretary after he had kept his mouth shut under three predecessors.