Politics Quotes

Good government is good politics.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.