Politics Quotes

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

Politics is applesauce.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

The world is governed by opinion.

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

Politics is show business for ugly people.