Politics Quotes

There is no gambling like politics.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

In politics nothing is contemptible.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

I discourage a cult of personality.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.