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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All about POLITICS QUOTES - 1

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson 

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt 

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Leo Rosten 

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett 

A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers 

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright 

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
Charles W. Pickering 

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman 

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein 

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
Carter Glass 

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
William Randolph 

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Albert Pike 

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

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S. Truman 

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams 

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Warren G. Harding 

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold H. Glasow 

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.
Christy Romano 

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal 

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal 


As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Daniel J. Boorstin 

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon 

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Spiro T. Agnew 

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce 

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill 

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

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Robert Byrne 

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White 

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle 

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
Robert Orben 

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 

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
Lady Bird Johnson 

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
John W. Gardner 

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
Edward Kennedy 

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 

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J. Boorstin 

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling 

Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild 

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal 

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


He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon Bonaparte 

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston Churchill 

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman 

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. Fields 

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
William Gilbert 

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher 

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.
Gerhard Schroeder 

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
Dan Quayle 

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers 

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Arthur C. Clarke 

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson 

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
Edward Koch 

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte 

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 

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
Sydney Pollack 

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
Gary Hart 

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
Jeane Kirkpatrick 

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater 

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 

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
Meg Greenfield

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