954 private quotes tagged politics

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

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

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“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” — 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 are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.” — Winston Churchill

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

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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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“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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“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.” — Aristotle

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“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.” — Arnold H. Glasow

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“A fool and his money are soon elected.” — Will Rogers

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

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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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