954 private quotes tagged politics

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

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“To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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

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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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“If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.” — Emma Goldman

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

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“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Half a truth is better than no politics.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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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“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.” — H. L. Mencken

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“If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.” — Hyman Rickover

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“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.” — Frank Zappa

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“The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.” — T. S. Eliot

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“Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Politics is the art of controlling your environment.” — Hunter S. Thompson

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“In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.” — Winston Churchill

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“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.” — Winston Churchill

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“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.” — John F. Kennedy

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