Politics Quotes

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
Robert Orben

Feeling, Find, Reason

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
Woodrow Wilson

Friendship, Teacher, Long

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
B. R. Ambedkar

Country, Another, Class

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Run, Serve, Elected

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Idea, High, Office

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone

Trust, Fear, Distrust

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
William Randolph

Job, Become, Keep

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.
Edward Koch

President, Fly, Washington

The secret of getting things done is to act!
Dante Alighieri

Done, Secret, Getting

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
Woodrow Wilson

Someone, Doubt, Makes

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White

Time, Democracy, Half

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling

Freedom, Press, Guaranteed

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Oscar Levant

Poor, Between, Difference

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas

Today, May, Same

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Daniel J. Boorstin

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
Sydney Pollack

Business, Become, Show

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Arthur C. Clarke

Power, Give, President

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

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Zedong

War, While, Bloodshed

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
Emma Goldman

Change, Real, Revolution

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle

Serious, Matter, Left

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Albert Pike

Great, War, Nation

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
Fidel Castro

Revolution, Against, Exploited

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph Nader

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