Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class. B. R. Ambedkar on politics
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. Adlai E. Stevenson on politics
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. William E. Gladstone on politics
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. William Randolph on politics
If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents. Edward Koch on politics
The secret of getting things done is to act! Dante Alighieri on politics
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. Woodrow Wilson on politics
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. E. B. White on politics
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. A. J. Liebling on politics
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. Oscar Levant on politics
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. William O. Douglas on politics
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. Daniel J. Boorstin on politics
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. Sydney Pollack on politics
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. Arthur C. Clarke on politics
Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing. Bernard Baruch on politics
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. Mao Zedong on politics
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. Emma Goldman on politics
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. Charles de Gaulle on politics
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. Albert Pike on politics