1,008 Quotes Regarding Politics


If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
Hyman Rickover

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
George Will

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

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
Robert Reich

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
Zell Miller

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
John Morley

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
Gloria Steinem

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Bill Vaughan

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
George Will

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
John Foster Dulles

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
Clare Boothe Luce

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
Imelda Marcos

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
Oliver Stone

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
Sandra Day O'Connor

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Grover Cleveland

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry Adams

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
Alphonse de Lamartine