Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert EinsteinAll the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
MoliereHe who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Abraham LincolnPolitics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho MarxPoliticians and diapers should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.
Mark TwainAnyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas AdamsNo man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Abraham LincolnAs I would not be a slave so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham LincolnReader suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark TwainWhen I hear a man preach I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham LincolnFacts are stubborn but statistics are more pliable.
Mark TwainWe get what we deserve. They are our elected officials.
George CarlinI desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at least have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham LincolnThose who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mahatma GandhiI believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
Steve MartinIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VoltaireIn matters of conscience the law of the majority has no place.
Mahatma GandhiAll compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mahatma GandhiForget sex, or politics, or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
Doug CouplandEverything is possible, from angels to demons, to economists and politicians.
Paulo CoelhoA politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
Hubert H. HumphreyConservative n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose BierceI hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
Ray BradburyWhen I am getting ready to reason with a man I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say, and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham LincolnDemocracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar WildeIn politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. WellsTo expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar WildeAllow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham LincolnI claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mahatma GandhiSometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe and which mean very little.
Eleanor RooseveltDon't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President, or you delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.
Donald RumsfeldWith public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed.
Abraham LincolnIn my opinion eight years as president is enough, and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
Harry S. TrumanThe most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control and outnumbers both of the other classes.
AristotleThe spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Mahatma GandhiAny man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIt is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James MadisonElections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
Thomas SowellYou don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Margaret ThatcherI am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret ThatcherI rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
P. J. O'RourkeI've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
Bob DylanThe best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
AristotlePolitics is almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston ChurchillFifty percent of people won't vote and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
Gore VidalGive every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William ShakespeareA sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
Joseph StalinNecessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin FranklinNo part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Winston ChurchillThere is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics, none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
Thomas HuxleyMothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. KennedyOur success, educationally, industrially and politically, is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
Marcus GarveyAnd fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.
Mitt RomneyI am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham LincolnThere is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Will RogersCompromise n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Ambrose BiercePoliticians also have no leisure because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory or happiness.
AristotleIf once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Abraham LincolnThe loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
James MadisonPatriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
Mark TwainNever do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert EinsteinThe state exists for the sake of a good life and not for the sake of life only
AristotleThe mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
Richard M. NixonDemocracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects, because men are equally free they claim to be absolutely equal.
AristotleThe rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark TwainTherefore the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
AristotleAny American who is prepared to run for president should automatically by definition be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore VidalNationality is the miracle of political independence, race is the principle of physical analogy.
Benjamin DisraeliIt is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
AristotleDon't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham LincolnOne should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar WildeHalf of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore VidalThe meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl MarxWhen we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais NinA public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Richard M. NixonWhen an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.
Hillary ClintonProsperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Woodrow WilsonThe need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.
Hillary ClintonThe world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Woodrow WilsonPositive rights are the right to shelter the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are I would call them more properly political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
P. J. O'RourkeIn 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 OrwellI am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools, they seem to me to be something else besides human life.
William BlakeThere will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers and political power, and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
PlatoIn Paris when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They didn't like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it.
Ingrid BergmanWhen it comes to the health of our families Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.
Michelle ObamaThe future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama your agenda is not new. It's not change and it's not hope.
Rush LimbaughI do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
Nelson Mandela