954 private quotes tagged politics

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

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

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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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“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.” — Ambrose Bierce

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

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“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” — Winston Churchill

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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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“My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.” — Ronald Reagan

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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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“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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“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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“Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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“Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.” — Albert Einstein

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“A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.” — Will Rogers

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“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.” — George Orwell

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“Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.” — Robert Frost

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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” — H. L. Mencken

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