Politics Quotes And Sayings

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“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
– Groucho Marx

“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

“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.”
– H.L. Mencken, 1956

“Politicians say they’re beefing up our economy. Most don’t know beef from pork.”
– Harold Lowman

“The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?”
– Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy Of The People

“The problem with political jokes is they get elected.”
– Henry Cate, Vii

“The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one’s country and its people.”
– Henry Ford, “Party Politics,” Ford Ideals

“There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.”
– Hermione Gingold

“A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.”
– James Freeman Clarke, Sermon

“Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.”
– James Harvey Robinson, The Human Comedy, 1937

“If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.”
– Jay Leno

“Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.”
– John Dryden, Absalom And Achitophel

“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

“When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.”
– John Gardner

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith

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

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith

“Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.”
– John Quinton

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

“Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe’er he touch’d to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease – Touch them with gold, they’ll turn to what you please.”
– John Wolcot

“Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and all for the same reason.”
– José Maria De Eça De Queiroz

“In politics, it’s what isn’t said that matters.”
– K. J. Parker, Devices And Desires

“Politics, n: [Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"]”
– Larry Hardiman

“A conservative is one who admires radicals’ centuries after they’re dead.”
– Leo Rosten

“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, The New York Times, 30 October 1988

“If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.”
– Lindsey Nelson

“The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.”
– Lyman Bryson

“I’m not a leftist; I’m where the righteous ought to be.”
– M.M. Coady

“If God had been a Liberal there wouldn’t have been Ten Commandments, there would have been Ten Suggestions.”
– Malcolm Bradbury, After Dinner Game, 1982

“Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.”
– Mao Zedong

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