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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