954 private quotes tagged politics

“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.” — Ronald Reagan

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“War is the ultimate tool of politics.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.” — Winston Churchill

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“Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.” — Will Rogers

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“We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.” — Harry S. Truman

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“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” — Ronald Reagan

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“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.” — Ronald Reagan

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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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“A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.” — Woodrow Wilson

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

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“If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.” — Mark Twain

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“Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.” — Ambrose Bierce

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