Politics Quotes

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.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

Think globally, act locally.

I’ve read about foreign policy and studied – I know the number of continents.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

We have nothing against ideas. We’re against people spreading them.

We do not need to burn down the house to kill the rats.

If you can’t drink a lobbyist’s whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don’t belong in politics.