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Quotable Quotes
Quotable Quotes- Politics
"The incestuous relationship between government
and big business thrives in the dark."
--Jack Anderson [More Quotes from Jack
Anderson]
"The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and
increase military spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would
take."
--John B. Anderson [More Quotes from John
B. Anderson]
"I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at
least, has a degree of forgiveness."
--Anonymous [More Quotes from Anonymous]
"Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning
bloodsuckers."
--Anonymous [More Quotes from Anonymous]
"To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your
principles."
--Anonymous [More Quotes from Anonymous]
"Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
--Ambrose Bierce [More Quotes from Ambrose
Bierce]
"Politics is not an exact science."
--Otto Von Bismarck [More Quotes from Otto
Von Bismarck]
"Politics is the art of the possible."
--Otto Von Bismarck [More Quotes from Otto
Von Bismarck]
"A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature."
--Lord Bryce [More Quotes from Lord Bryce]
"The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of
thought."
--John Jay Chapman [More Quotes from John
Jay Chapman]
"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."
--Winston Churchill [More Quotes from
Winston Churchill]
"A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next
generation."
--J. F. Clarke [More Quotes from J. F.
Clarke]
"Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense,
a noble one."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower [More Quotes from
Dwight D. Eisenhower]
"Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
--Charles De Gaulle [More Quotes from
Charles De Gaulle]
"A camel is a horse designed by committee."
--Alec Issigonis [More Quotes from Alec
Issigonis]
"My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd
go straight."
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy [More Quotes
from John Fitzgerald Kennedy]
"The political world is stimulating. It's the most interesting thing you
can do. It beats following the dollar."
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy [More Quotes
from John Fitzgerald Kennedy]
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even
where there is no river."
--Nikita Khrushchev [More Quotes from
Nikita Khrushchev]
"Je veux que les paysans mettent la poule au pot tous les dimanches."
--King Henry Iv Of France [More Quotes
from King Henry Iv Of France]
"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart
enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important."
--Eugene Mccarthy [More Quotes from Eugene
Mccarthy]
"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."
--H. L. Mencken [More Quotes from H. L.
Mencken]
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a
continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing
them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
--H. L. Mencken [More Quotes from H. L.
Mencken]
"The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the
irrationalities of men."
--Reinhold Niebuhr [More Quotes from
Reinhold Niebuhr]
"There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician."
--Richard M. Nixon [More Quotes from
Richard M. Nixon]
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you
end up being governed by your inferiors."
--Plato [More Quotes from Plato]
"He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He
was a politician of monumental littleness."
--Theodore Roosevelt [More Quotes from
Theodore Roosevelt]
"If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve."
--Gen. William Sherman [More Quotes from
Gen. William Sherman]
"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."
--Socrates [More Quotes from Socrates]
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is
thought necessary."
--Robert Louis Stevenson [More Quotes from
Robert Louis Stevenson]
"I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands
government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a
politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years."
--Harry S. Truman [More Quotes from Harry
S. Truman]
"Politics makes strange bed-fellows."
--Charles Dudley Warner [More Quotes from
Charles Dudley Warner]
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