Quotes about Politics

"A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful."

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."

"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today."

"If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve."

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."

"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."

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

"Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party."

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

"Politics have no relation to morals."

"The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy."

"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office."

"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."

"Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

"In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith."

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

"A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits."

"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."

"Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas."

"Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable."

"A fool and his money are soon elected."

"The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face."

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness."

"People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House."

"War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules."

"Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism."