Quotable Quotes

Quotable Quotes- Politics

“The incestuous relationship between government
and big business thrives in the dark.”
–Jack Anderson      [More Quotes from Jack
Anderson]



“The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and
increase military spending] is with mirrors, and that’s what it would
take.”

–John B. Anderson      [More Quotes from John
B. Anderson]



“I’d rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at
least, has a degree of forgiveness.”

–Anonymous      [More Quotes from Anonymous]



“Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning
bloodsuckers.”

–Anonymous      [More Quotes from Anonymous]



“To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your
principles.”

–Anonymous      [More Quotes from Anonymous]



“Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”

–Ambrose Bierce      [More Quotes from Ambrose
Bierce]



“Politics is not an exact science.”

–Otto Von Bismarck      [More Quotes from Otto
Von Bismarck]



“Politics is the art of the possible.”

–Otto Von Bismarck      [More Quotes from Otto
Von Bismarck]



“A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.”

–Lord Bryce      [More Quotes from Lord Bryce]



“The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of
thought.”

–John Jay Chapman      [More Quotes from John
Jay Chapman]



“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”

–Winston Churchill      [More Quotes from
Winston Churchill]



“A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next
generation.”

–J. F. Clarke      [More Quotes from J. F.
Clarke]



“Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense,
a noble one.”

–Dwight D. Eisenhower      [More Quotes from
Dwight D. Eisenhower]



“Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”

–Charles De Gaulle      [More Quotes from
Charles De Gaulle]



“A camel is a horse designed by committee.”

–Alec Issigonis      [More Quotes from Alec
Issigonis]



“My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government — he promised Dad he’d
go straight.”

–John Fitzgerald Kennedy      [More Quotes
from John Fitzgerald Kennedy]



“The political world is stimulating. It’s the most interesting thing you
can do. It beats following the dollar.”

–John Fitzgerald Kennedy      [More Quotes
from John Fitzgerald Kennedy]



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

–Nikita Khrushchev      [More Quotes from
Nikita Khrushchev]



“Je veux que les paysans mettent la poule au pot tous les dimanches.”

–King Henry Iv Of France      [More Quotes
from King Henry Iv Of France]



“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart
enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it’s important.”

–Eugene Mccarthy      [More Quotes from Eugene
Mccarthy]



“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and
hence clamorous to be led to safety] by menacing it with an endless series of
hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

–H. L. Mencken      [More Quotes from H. L.
Mencken]



“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a
continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing
them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

–H. L. Mencken      [More Quotes from H. L.
Mencken]



“The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the
irrationalities of men.”

–Reinhold Niebuhr      [More Quotes from
Reinhold Niebuhr]



“There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.”

–Richard M. Nixon      [More Quotes from
Richard M. Nixon]



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

–Plato      [More Quotes from Plato]



“He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He
was a politician of monumental littleness.”

–Theodore Roosevelt      [More Quotes from
Theodore Roosevelt]



“If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.”

–Gen. William Sherman      [More Quotes from
Gen. William Sherman]



“I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”

–Socrates      [More Quotes from Socrates]



“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is
thought necessary.”

–Robert Louis Stevenson      [More Quotes from
Robert Louis Stevenson]



“I’m proud that I’m a politician. A politician is a man who understands
government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a
politician who’s been dead 10 or 15 years.”

–Harry S. Truman      [More Quotes from Harry
S. Truman]



“Politics makes strange bed-fellows.”

–Charles Dudley Warner      [More Quotes from
Charles Dudley Warner]