The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. Fidel Castro on politics
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. Ralph Nader on politics
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. Lady Bird Johnson on politics
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. Thomas B. Macaulay on politics
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. Theodore White on politics
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. Daniel J. Boorstin on politics
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong. Fidel Castro on politics
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. Russell Baker on politics
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. Neal Barnard on politics
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. Leo Rosten on politics
The most important political office is that of the private citizen. Louis D. Brandeis on politics
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. Charles de Gaulle on politics
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. Dan Quayle on politics
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. Herbert Hoover on politics
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Daniel Webster on politics
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. Sandra Day O'Connor on politics
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. Hyman Rickover on politics
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. George Will on politics
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. A. N. Wilson on politics