954 private quotes tagged politics

“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Patriotism is not obedience to government. Patriotism is obedience to the principals for which government is supposed to stand.” — Howard Zinn

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“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.” — Gore Vidal

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“Who doesn't want to shortcut the greatness.” — Jackson Evans

Source:The Contender, 2000. Film.

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“Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.” — Mason Cooley

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“Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.” — Gore Vidal

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“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.” — Will Rogers

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“Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.” — Winston Churchill

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“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” — Plato

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“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.” — Winston Churchill

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“If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.” — Will Rogers

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“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” — Winston Churchill

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“I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.” — Lord Byron

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“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.” — Mark Twain

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