Politics Quotes And Sayings

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“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”
– Mark Twain

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
– Mark Twain

“The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.”
– Mark Twain, Mark Twain’S Notebook

“American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s-license age than at voting age.”
– Marshall Mcluhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions Of Man, 1964

“We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.”
– Martin L. Gross, A Call For Revolution, 1993

“The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.”
– Maureen Murphy

“Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.”
– Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts

“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

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

“A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.”
– Murray Kempton

“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.”
– Nikita Khrushchev

“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.”
– Oscar Ameringer

“The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.”
– Oscar Levant

“History is gossip but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.”
– P.J. O’Rourke

“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”
– P.J. O’Rourke

“The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.”
– Paul Krugman, Playboy, Mar. 2012

“Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.”
– Paul Krugman, The Australian Financial Review, Sep. 6, 2010

“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”
– Plato

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

“Mankind will never see an end of trouble until… lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power… become lovers of wisdom.”
– Plato, The Republic

“The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“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

“He didn’t say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.”
– Richard Darman

“Mudslinging – In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called ‘making a good point.”
– Richard Turner (1937-2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon

“Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?”
– Robert Brault

“Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: “Bless me Father, for sins have been committed.”
– Robert Brault

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

“Once upon a time there was a politician who made an especially conspicuous ass of himself and didn’t say the newspapers misquoted him.”
– Robert Elliott Gonzales, Poems And Paragraphs

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