Politics Quotes, Sayings about politics and politicians
+38We’d all like to vote for the best man, but he’s never a candidate
- Anonymous
+36In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
- Anonymous
+32A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
- H. L. Mencken
+30Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
- Blaise Pascal
+30Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
- Anonymous
+28We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
- Martin L. Gross
+26Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are trouble some.
- Benjamin Whichcote
+24Truth is not determined by majority vote.
- Anonymous
+22The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- Abraham Lincoln
+22Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
- Bill Moyers
+18I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
- Anonymous
+18Although he’s regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.
- Anonymous
+16Being Politically Correct means always having to say you’re sorry.
- Anonymous
+5If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.
- Emma Goldman
+5We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- Aesop
+5Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
- Groucho Marx
+5Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
- Otto Von Bismark
+3Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
- W.C. Fields
+3If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
- Jay Leno
+3Politics, n: Poly “many” + tics “blood-sucking parasites”.
- Larry Hardiman
+3The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
+3Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
+3Politicians say they’re beefing up our economy. Most don’t know beef from pork.
- Harold Lowman
+3Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
- Nikita Krushchev
+3There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
- Alexis Tocqueville
+3I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
- Charles Gaulle
+3When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
+3When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
+3Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
- Winston Churchill
+3Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
- Richard Armour
+3A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
- H. L. Mencken
+3Politics 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
+3Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
- Ambrose Bierce
+3Politics 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
+3There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
- John Adams
+3Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
- David Broder
+3Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidentially expect utopia. Both are wrong.
- Carolyn Heilbrun
+3A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
- James Madison
+3What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
- Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
+3I’m not a member of any organized political party, I’m a Democrat!
- Will Rogers
