All about POLITICS QUOTES - 2

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
William Tecumseh Sherman 

If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words.
Esther B. Fein 

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Nelson Mandela 

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Emma Goldman 

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis D. Brandeis 

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky 

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

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 

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas Sowell 

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill 

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman 

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. William Fulbright 

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
Dick Gregory 

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle 

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles de Gaulle 

In politics nothing is contemptible.
Benjamin Disraeli 

In politics the middle way is none at all.
John Adams 

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken 

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan 

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson 


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

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 

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mohandas Gandhi 

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

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin 

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 

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
Abba Eban 

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Daniel Webster 

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy 

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone 

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
John Kenneth Galbraith 

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil Gibran 

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 

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
John F. Kennedy 

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 

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry A. Kissinger 

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
Emma Goldman 

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

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato 

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
Cal Thomas 


Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Milton Friedman 

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

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Thurgood Marshall 

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich 

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle 

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers 

Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli 

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston Churchill 

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith 

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle 

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung 

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 

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce 

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 

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

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain 

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 

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 

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

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
Lewis Black 

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