1,008 Quotes Regarding Politics


Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Alexis de Tocqueville

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S. Truman

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O'Rourke

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
Pope John Paul II

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold H. Glasow

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Jimmy Carter

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
George MacDonald

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
Dwight D. Eisenhower