Politics Quotes

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer, but imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the Presidency.

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

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.