Politics Quotes

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

Angela Merkel

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jesse Jackson

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

Emma Bonino

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

Bertrand Russell

If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.

Kurt Vonnegut

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not stakes. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting FOR THE RIGHT is DOING nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail.

Henry David Thoreau

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

Plato

AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Ambrose Bierce

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.

Iain Duncan Smith

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Theodore Roosevelt

George Clooney's 'Ides of March' could be the most under-appreciated movie of the year. In 20 years they're gonna go back and say, 'Oh, that was American politics in that time period.' I follow politics, I love it, and that movie is so authentic.

Harvey Weinstein

Men have differed in opinion, and been divided into parties by these opinions, from the first origin of societies; and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. the same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time. Whether the power of the people, or that of the (best men; nobles) should prevail, were questions which kept the states of Greece and rome in eternal convulsions...

Thomas Jefferson

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Charles de Secondat

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

Edmund Burke

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

Rick Warren

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Aristotle

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

Nate Silver

Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

John Dryden

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Theodore Roosevelt