Politics Quotes

Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.

Politics is the science of how who gets what when and why.

Politics is but the common pulse beat.

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Politics is war without bloodshed and war is politics with blood.

This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens then everybody disagrees.

This organization (United Nations) is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world short of war to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics.

Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It is just as simple as that.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by mself.

Deep down he is shallow.

As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?

Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad get even.

Forgiving is all forgetting is another thing.

He's like a football coach who's smart enough to win the game and dumb enough to think it's important.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honour the territorial imperative.

A statesman is an easy man He tells his lies by rote A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote.

Money is the mother's milk of politics.

One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.

It's nice to have four years between elections. It takes people that long to regain their faith.

Liberals think you can reform an ax murderer. They don't want to kill anything. They want to change the Listerine labels to "Rehabilitate the germs that cause bad breath."

A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.

A conservative is a Democrat who's been mugged. I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip isn't it?

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money.

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

The prerequisites for being in the diplomatic corps are the ability to handle protocol alcohol and Geritol.

As a politician he does everything to keep out of trouble often by not asking questions. However it does bother him that every time the doorbell rings his maid hides in the dryer.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city it might be better to change the locks.

He is so aware of being politically correct he refers to a taco as Hispanic food.

Unlike Churchill I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice - and they poisoned him.

What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics

The public is very fickle as I was saying to my cabdriver Gerald Ford.

They pick a president and then for four years they pick on him.

A politican is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation.

It is a condition which confronts us - not a theory.

Damned Neuters in their Middle way of Steering Are neither Fish nor Flesh nor good Red Herring.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.

The statesman shears the sheep the politician skins them.

If nominated I will not accept if elected I will not serve.