Good Politics quotes: Best famous quotes about Politics
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. – Imelda Marcos
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds. – Thurgood Marshall
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
Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -and both commonly succeed, and are right. – H. L. Mencken
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. – H. L. Mencken
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. – John Stuart Mill
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. – John Stuart Mill
A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That’s the second hand, George. – Dennis Miller
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. – John Morley
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. – Maureen Murphy
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. – Ralph Nader
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. – George Jean Nathan
My hope is that 10 years from now, after I’ve been across the street at work for a while, they’ll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote. – Sandra Day O’Connor
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. – Sandra Day O’Connor
It is a measure of the framers’ fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. – Sandra Day O’Connor
We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result. – Sandra Day O’Connor
Political theory provides a common language with which people in this town communicate with each other. – Kirk O’Donnell
You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don’t get much else in that job. – Thomas P. O’Neill
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. – P. J. O’Rourke
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it. – P. J. O’Rourke
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? – Robert Orben
‘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
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. – Ross Perot
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. – Albert Pike
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. – Plato
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. – Plato
What you guys want, I’m for. – Dan Quayle
It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system. – Dan Quayle
We don’t want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward. – Dan Quayle
I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future. – Dan Quayle
The future will be better tomorrow. – Dan Quayle
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century. – Dan Quayle
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. – Dan Quayle
Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts. – Dan Quayle
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change. – Dan Quayle
I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix. – Dan Quayle
When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame. – Dan Quayle
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it. – Dan Quayle
Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year. – Dan Quayle
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. – Dan Quayle
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. – Dan Quayle
We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. – Dan Quayle
I want to be Robin to Bush’s Batman. – Dan Quayle
El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice. – Dan Quayle
It’s rural America. It’s where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America. – Dan Quayle
I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time. – Dan Quayle
Lookit, I’ve done it their way this far and now it’s my turn. I’m my own handler. Any questions? Ask me… There’s not going to be any more handler stories because I’m the handler… I’m Doctor Spin. – Dan Quayle
Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we’re going forward to tomorrow or whether we’re going to go past to the – to the back! – Dan Quayle
I was known as the chief grave robber of my state. – Dan Quayle
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America. – Dan Quayle
This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States! – Dan Quayle
I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it. – Dan Quayle
I’m going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we’ve had in a couple of hundred years. – Dan Quayle
The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive. – Dan Quayle
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there. – Dan Quayle
I happen to be a Republican president – ah, the vice president. – Dan Quayle
I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student. – Dan Quayle
The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy? – Dan Quayle
In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future! – Dan Quayle
I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings. – Dan Quayle
When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is. – Dan Quayle
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right. – Dan Quayle
Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look. – Dan Quayle
I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service. – Dan Quayle
I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible. – Dan Quayle
You have a part-time job and that’s better than no job at all. – Dan Quayle
I deserve respect for the things I did not do. – Dan Quayle
This President is going to lead us out of this recovery. – Dan Quayle
We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country. – Dan Quayle
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. – Ronald Reagan
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t. – Hyman Rickover
Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. – James Harvey Robinson
I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. – Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice doggie” until you can find a rock. – Will Rogers
I’m not a member of any organized political party, I’m a Democrat! – Will Rogers
There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators. – Will Rogers
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead. – Leo Rosten
I can’t let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days. – Gerhard Schroeder
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. – William T. Sherman
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote. – William E. Simon
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. – Joseph Stalin
There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer. – Gertrude Stein
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. – Adlai E. Stevenson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. – Caskie Stinnett
I’ve been to war, and it’s not easy to kill. It’s bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. – Oliver Stone
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. – Margaret Thatcher
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. – Margaret Thatcher
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. – Alexis de Tocqueville
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. – Harry S. Truman
He loved politicians – even Republicans. – Margaret Truman
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. – Harry S. Truman
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. – Mao Tse-Tung
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. – Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. – Mark Twain
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. – Stewart L. Udall
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. – Paul Valery
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does. – Bill Vaughan
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. – Gore Vidal
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. – Gore Vidal
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. – Gore Vidal
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain. – George C. Wallace
I’m the lamest lame duck there could be. – George C. Wallace
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we’ve been bombing over the years been complaining? – George C. Wallace
I met someone on the street who said wasn’t it great that we’re going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it’s so American. – Andy Warhol
This is an era of violent peace. – James D. Watkins
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. – Daniel Webster
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. – E. B. White
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. – Theodore White
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. – George Will
Voters don’t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. – George Will
The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny “arf” – the sound of a lap dog. – George Will
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. – Woodrow Wilson
There are no more liberals They’ve all been mugged. – James Q. Wilson
A free America… means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it. – Frank Lloyd Wright
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. – Deng Xiaoping
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