954 private quotes tagged politics

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“Finality is not the language of politics.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

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“A fool and his money are soon elected.” — 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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“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.” — Will Rogers

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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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