Reporter: Senator, are you for or against the MX missile system? Senator: Bob, the MX missile system reminds me of an old saying that the country folk in my state like to say. It goes like this: “You can carry a pig for six miles, but if you set it down it might run away.” […]
Politics Quotes
What’s wrong with McCarthy is simply that he does not play the American political game according to the rules. He cheats. He proceeds on the assumption that the voters are too stupid to prefer the complicated truth to the simple, dramatic lie. So far, moreover, McCarthy has gotten away with playing the American voters for […]
You don’t have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.
The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics.
Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician’s corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedy.
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.
Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle.
