Politics Quotes

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.

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.