954 private quotes tagged politics

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

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

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

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“In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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