1,008 Quotes Regarding Politics


I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.
Mitt Romney

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert Kennedy

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry A. Kissinger

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein

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

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics the middle way is none at all.
John Adams

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
Harry S. Truman

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson