Top 100 Politics Quotes of All Time

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...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.

2

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

3

My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

4

[M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago.

5

[Alan] Dershowitz has also offered to defend Osama bin Laden in court, saying it would be an act of high patriotism. It's kind of too bad there isn't going to be a trial. Having Dershowitz defend him could be Osama's only shot at not being the least popular person in the courtroom.

6

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

7

Man is by nature a political animal.

8

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

9

Party is organized opinion.

10

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

11

Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.

12

Great obstacles make great leaders.

13

The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.

14

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

15

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

16

In poltitics you get what you deserve rather than what you want.

17

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.

18

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

19

I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

20

Oprah is so rich, I saw John Kerry proposing to her.

21

There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of evidence of that.

22

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

23

Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?

24

There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man.

25

I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

26

I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time.

27

May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.

28

Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.

29

Okay, I won't open it until then

30

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

31

Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.

32

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

33

It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

34

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

35

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

36

I went to the UN and even the guidebook was spineless.

37

I love this country for several reasons, not the least of which is that I know I'm allowed to hate it if I want to.

38

But the biggest fake of the year, Paul Begala's last smile

39

I hate the fact that he's doing that, but the fact is that, you know what, that's a human being, though. He let his guard down one day to me, a friend.

40

He loves power. He loves control because others, you know, dad and stuff like that, but he's just a great guy. He's just a great guy.

41

If a person, in a position of authority, wants someone to believe a lie, usually all they have to do is tell it to them. If they want someone to believe a ridiculous lie, all they have to do is tell it to them enough.

42

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

43

Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.

44

It is from the center that leaders must lead.

45

There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.

46

[T]he harm [Clinton AG] Reno did to American national security in the fight against terror was incalculable.

47

Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

48

The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.

49

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

50

All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.

51

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

52

Nothing in politics is ever so good or as bad as it first appears.

53

She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.

54

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

55

...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

56

It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.

57

Leaders often find themselves temporarily alone.

58

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

59

All fundamental political problems are problems of relationships; therefore, all fundamental solutions have to involve fundamental changes in relationships.

60

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

61

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

62

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

63

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

64

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

65

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.

66

Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them's really right, cause neither of them care.

67

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

68

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

69

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

70

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

71

Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

72

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

73

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

74

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

75

Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.

76

If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.

77

All isms end in fascism.

78

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

79

As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.

80

Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.

81

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

82

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

83

[Obamacare] has to be enforced because nobody wants it. This is the nature of progressive government they don't care if it's not good for you. It's good for them.

84

Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent.

85

Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.

86

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.

87

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

88

The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.

89

We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.

90

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

91

Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.

92

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

93

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

94

This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.

95

The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs.

96

Currency warfare is the most destructive form of economic warfare.

97

Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.

98

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

99

It sure is hell to be president.

100

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

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