Politics Quotes

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Theodore Roosevelt

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Theodore Roosevelt

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is silly to call fat people gravitationally challenged -- a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

Terry Eagleton

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

Peter Jennings

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Arthur H. Clough

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

William Jefferson Clinton

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

William Jefferson Clinton

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

Ron Fournier

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

W. C. Fields

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

Diane Abbott

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Joseph Sobran

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

Richard Powers

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.

George Saunders

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Denis E. Brogan

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Vera Brittain

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. They deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I did not enter the labor Party forty-seven years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr. Mori, Dr. Gallup and Mr. Harris.

Tony Benn

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Tony Benn