Every election is a sort of advance auction sale
of stolen goods.
- H. L. Mencken
You think if you get elected, Gore will try to
take credit for it?
- Jay Leno
interviewing George Bush
Politics gives guys so much power that they tend
to behave badly around women. And I hope I never
get into that.
- William J. Clinton - Bill Clinton
Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who
count the votes decide everything.
- Josef Stalin
When asked to name the chief qualification a
politician should have. "It's the ability to
foretell what will happen tomorrow, next month,
and next year --- and to explain afterward why it
didn't happen."
- Sir Winston Churchill
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I
must study politics and war that my sons may have
liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My
sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy,
geography, natural history, naval architecture,
navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to
give their children a right to study painting,
poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry,
and porcelain.
- John Adams (1735-1826)
You are never dedicated to something you have
complete confidence in. No is fanatically shouting
that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know
is going to rise tomorrow. When people are
fanatically dedicated to political or religious
faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's
always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
It may not always be easy, convenient, or
politically correct to stand for truth and right,
but it is the right thing to do. Always.
- M. Russell Ballard
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be
president but they don't want them to become
politicians in the process
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The simple fact is that when I took up my little
sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something
else. What I hit was the forces of that great
socialist revolution, which, in the name of
liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat
formlessly, always in the same direction, has been
inching its ice cap over the nation for two
decades. ...[T]hough I knew it existed, I still
had no adequate idea of its extent, the depth of
its penetration or the fierce vindictiveness of
its revolutionary temper, which is a reflex of it
struggle to keep and advance its political power.
- Whittaker Chambers
former Communist. From his 1952 book Witness
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest
profession. I have come to realize that it bears
a very close resemblance to the first.
- Ronald Reagan
Bush is in a strong position -- for now. Let's
hope he knows that politics won't stay pleasantly
boring forever.
- National Review Online
Can government really be active and, at the same
time, limited? History suggests otherwise.
- Lew Rockwell
Squeezing our money out of politicians is more
difficult than squeezing blood from a turnip. To
paraphrase an Oscar Hammerstein love song, once
they have found a way to take our money, they
never let it go.
- Cal Thomas
[O]ur political kultur is polluted with politics,
the politics of the left. Call it Kultursmog. It
pollutes every area of life it touches with
politics.
- R. Emmett Tyrrell
Politicians are like diapers. They should both be
changed frequently and for the same reason.
- Anonymous
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer
people going to the polls.
- Dan Quayle
Politics is more difficult than physics
- Albert Einstein
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country
are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's
the other lousy two percent that get all the
publicity. But then, we elected them.
- Lily Tomlin
A politician will do anything to keep his job even
become a patriot.
- William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
US newspaper publisher, Recalled on his death 14 Aug 1951
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
- Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
Russian political leader
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It
is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
- Sir Winston Churchill
The things that will destroy us are: politics
without principle; pleasure without conscience;
wealth without work; knowledge without character;
business without morality; science without
humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Politics is the art of the possible.
- Otto von Bismarck
Today's public figures can no longer write their
own speeches or books, and there is some evidence
that they can't read them either.
- Gore Vidal