Memorable Famous Quotes About Politics

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"In politics, ignorance is not a handicap."
Robert Heinlein
"Politics, when carried on by the few, always leads to war."
William James
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge."
Daniel J. Boorstin
"The essence of government is power; and the essence of power is control."
James F. Byrnes
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
Plato
"In the world of diplomacy, some knots must never be untied."
Henry Kissinger
"Politics is like driving. To go backward, put it in R. To go forward, put it in D. To steer, use your head."
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"An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide."
Arthur A. Cohen
"United we stand; divided we fall."
Aesop
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."
John Stuart Mill
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
Confucius
"You can't escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln
"Elections are about choosing the best alternative in a world full of imperfect choices."
James L. Laffer
"The goal of the politician is to keep you scared and ignorant."
Peter Coyote
"All politics are local."
Tip O'Neill
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
Winston Churchill
"Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed."
Mao Zedong
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
Emma Goldman
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
José Maria de Echegaray
"The politics of the left is built on the assumption that people who are capable of paying taxes are to be punished."
Margaret Thatcher
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"It is not the young people who are going to ruin this country; it is the older people who are going to ruin this country."
Dean Acheson
"The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Politics is the illusion of choice."
David Icke
"A nation that fails to honor its past can hardly expect to shape its future."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
Winston Churchill
"You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
Frank Zappa
"Politics is just like a business; you have to make sacrifices and sometimes take risks."
Maria Bartiromo
"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson
"If you don’t like how the table is set, turn over the table."
Tom Peters
"In America, anyone can be president. That’s one thing we can all agree on."
George Carlin
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
George Carlin
"The most important thing in politics is timing."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"I think the best way to get your audience’s attention is to start with a good laugh."
Maya Angelou
"The greatest menace to the world today is the conflict between the East and the West."
John F. Kennedy
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"Politics is the womb in which war grows."
Karl Marx
"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."
Friedrich Hegel
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
John F. Kennedy
"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
Henry Adams
"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it."
Mark Twain
"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
Benjamin Franklin
"Politics is not a science. It is an art."
Otto von Bismarck
"Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people."
Abraham Lincoln
"The politicians are the only people in the world who can say anything they like and get away with it."
George Bernard Shaw
"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William E. Gladstone
"A statesman does not only think of today, but of tomorrow."
Winston Churchill
"The political is personal, and the personal is political."
Anne McClintock
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking."
George S. Patton
"In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
Marie Curie
"You can't be great if you don't take risks."
Anonymous
"Politics is not about winning or losing; it's about getting results for the people."
Nancy Pelosi
"Politics is the art of the possible."
Otto von Bismarck
"If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it."
Mark Twain
"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."
Louise B. E. Kahn
"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
Ronald Reagan
"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."
George Jean Nathan
"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable."
George Orwell
"A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation."
James Freeman Clarke
"You can't be neutral on a moving train."
Howard Zinn
"The trouble with political jokes is they get elected."
Henry Cate
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
Aesop
"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
Ralph Nader
"In politics, the middle way is no way at all."
John Adams
"Politics is like comedy; it’s all about timing."
Amy Poehler
"Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
Ronald Reagan
"Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision."
Abraham Lincoln
"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Politics can be a dirty business, but it is a necessary one."
Barbara Mikulski
"I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
Charles de Gaulle
"We are not a sectional party. We are a national party."
James K. Polk
"Vote the Issues, not the Party!"
Will Rogers
"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history."
Friedrich Hegel
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies."
Groucho Marx
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
Abraham Lincoln
"In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
Mao Zedong
"If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal."
Emma Goldman
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Plato
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
Plato
"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."
Robert Swan
"A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman thinks of the next generation."
James Freeman Clarke
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Lord Acton
"Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by human insecurity."
Henry Ward Beecher
"All politics is local."
Tip O’Neill
"One cannot govern wisely and well unless one has a proper congressional majority."
Harry S. Truman
"The political is the personal."
Carol Hanisch
"We do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."
Thomas Jefferson
"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."
Charlton Heston
"Politics is not about power; it’s about purpose."
Jesse Jackson
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
Bertrand Russell
"Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and how."
Harold Lasswell
"A politician is a person who will lay down your life for his country."
Tex Guinan
"Justice too long delayed is justice denied."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"You get what you give."
Paul Wellstone
"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others."
Winston Churchill
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