Politics Quotes And Sayings

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

“Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don’t know what they are conserving.”
– Robertson Davies

“Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”
– Ronald Reagan

“The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee — they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort to an idea that became a country — was a nation governed by professional politicians who had an interest in getting re-elected. They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then eagerly looking forward to getting back to the farm.”
– Ronald Reagan

“I used to say that politics was the second-oldest profession. I have come to know that it bears a gross similarity to the first.”
– Ronald Reagan

“Take our politicians: they’re a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.”
– Saul Bellow

“Politics – I don’t know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.”
– Sean O’Casey

“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.”
– Stewart Udall

“A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.”
– Texas Guinan

“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Politics has been called the “art of the possible,” and it actually is a realm akin to art insofar as, like art, it occupies a creatively mediating position between spirit and life, the idea and reality.”
– Thomas Mann, Speech At The U. S. Library Of Congress, May 29, 1945

“It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.”
– Tom Delay, Cnn, Jun. 9, 2006

“If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.”
– Vance Packard

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

“Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.”
– Walter Lippmann

“The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.”
– Will Rogers

“If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn’t be any inducement to go to heaven.”
– Will Rogers

“There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators.”
– Will Rogers

“We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.”
– Will Rogers

“I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.”
– Will Rogers, The Illiterate Digest, 1924

“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”
– William E. Gladstone, 1866

“Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.”
– Winston Churchill

“Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.”
– Winston Churchill

“Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.”
– Woodrow Wilson

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

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