1,008 Quotes Regarding Politics


You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
Thomas P. O'Neill

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
George C. Wallace

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.
Dick Durbin

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.
Johnny Isakson

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Paddy Chayefsky

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas Jefferson

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Abraham Lincoln

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston Churchill

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Winston Churchill

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Winston Churchill

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Winston Churchill

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mahatma Gandhi

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Eleanor Roosevelt