Politics Quotes

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Politics is not about money.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Politics is a blood sport.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

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

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

Politics is the art of the possible.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.