Politics Quotes

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

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

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.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

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.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

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

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.