Politics Quotes And Sayings

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“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.”
– Charles De Gaulle

“I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
– Charles De Gaulle

“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.”
– Charles Krauthammer

“I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.”
– Cissy Farenthold

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

“They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.”
– Clare Boothe Luce

“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.”
– Clarence Darrow

“I think it’s about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long enough.”
– Clarie Sargent, Arizona Senatorial Candidate

“In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It’s a big difference.”
– Dan Quayle

“The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They’re the kind of people who’d stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn’t bother to stop because they’d want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club.”
– Dave Barry

“Truth is not determined by majority vote.”
– Doug Gwyn

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

“If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.”
– Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings

“When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.”
– Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings

“There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.”
– Edmond De Goncourt And Jules De Goncourt

“Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it’s officially denied.”
– Edward Cheyfitz

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”
– Emma Goldman

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
– Ernest Benn

“I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic value to me, by seeing what low, paltry, personal motives and base machinery and dirty hands have helped to bring them about.”
– Fanny Kemble, Further Records, Feb. 14, 1874

“A man that’d expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an’ remains at large.”
– Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley’S Philosophy, 1900

“We’d all like to vote for the best man, but he’s never a candidate.”
– Frank Mckinney “Kin” Hubbard

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

“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 E. Macdonald

“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”
– George Eliot

“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”
– George Jean Nathan

“Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
– George Orwell, Politics And The English Language

“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
– George Washington

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

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

“All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.”
– Groucho Marx

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