954 private quotes tagged politics

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

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

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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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“King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“In politics nothing is contemptible.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.” — Aristotle

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“You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” — Khalil Gibran

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“What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!” — William Blake

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

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“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.” — Edmund Burke

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“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.” — Aristotle

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“'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” — Thomas Paine

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“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.” — Gore Vidal

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“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.” — Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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“Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.” — Ronald Reagan

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