Politics Quotes

I think I would make a great politician. I’m nice to nearly everybody, and I can talk for long periods of time without actually saying anything. I’m pro-choice, pro get-a-life and pro-death, which means that everyone would have to vote for me at least a third of the time.

Unfortunately, politicians have the Paul Masson theory of government – We will deal with no problems before its time.”

It is more than a crime; it is a political fault.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

My fellow citizens, it is an honor and a pleasure to be here today. My opponent has openly admitted he feels an affinity toward your city, but I happen to like this area. It might be a salubrious place to him, but to me it is one of the nation’s most delightful garden spots. When […]

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.