Politics Quotes

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.

Victor Hugo

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

James Fenimore Cooper

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

Johann Lamont

Politics ruins the character.

Otto von Bismarck

I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

Oriana Fallaci

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

James Wolcott

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

William Howard Taft

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Edouard Herriot

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

Christopher Hitchens

Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.

Tony Campolo

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

Thomas Jefferson

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Edward Heath

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Barbara Bush

Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information.

George Eliot

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto von Bismarck

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.

James McGreevey

Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give him a seat in Parliament.

C.S. Lewis

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

Imelda Marcos

I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

J. C. Watts