A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else’s money.
—Carter Glass (1858–1946) American Politician, Publisher
If you can’t stand a little sacrifice and you can’t stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we’re never going to straighten this country out.
—Ross Perot (1930–2019) American Businessman
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
—Daniel O’Connell (1775–1847) Irish Nationalist Leader
The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you’ve got to admit that each party’s worse than the other. The one that’s out always looks the best.
—Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist
The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.
—Lady Bird Johnson (1912–2007) First Lady of the United States, Conservationist
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss Theologian, Poet
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 (1903–50) English Novelist, Journalist
It is an ancient political vehicle, held together by soft soap and hunger and with front-seat drivers and back-seat drivers contradicting each other in a bedlam of voices, shouting
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–65) American Diplomat, Politician, Orator
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) American Journalist, Political Commentator
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
—H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
—Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.
—Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) Russian Head of State, Political leader
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
—Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
—Pericles (c.490–429 BCE) Athenian Statesman, General
In politics… shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) French Historian, Political Scientist
The most important political office is that of the private citizen
—Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) American Jurist
If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.
—Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
When great questions end, little parties begin.
—Walter Bagehot (1826–77) English Economist, Journalist
The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
—John Major (b.1943) British Head of State
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
—Socrates (469BCE–399BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher
I resent at any time or any place the attitude that the safety of this country depends on any man holding his job. No man has achieved that strength, and this country has not deteriorated to that weakness.
—Owen D. Young (1874–1962) American Businessman, Lawyer
Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.
—Frank Lane (1896–1981) American Sportsperson, Businessperson
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
Twist the dial during an election year and you hear someone twisting the truth.
—Arnold Glasow (1905–98) American Businessman
I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow (1803–81) English Writer, Traveler
A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
—Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) French General, Statesman
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