Politics Quotes

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

Francois Hollande

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Dante Alighieri

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Edna Ferber

Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.

Bernard Baruch

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Karl Marx

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Karl Marx

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Karl Marx

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Karl Marx

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Mark Twain

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Ben C. Bradlee

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Hugh Gaitskell

The problem is not Republican principals. The problem is unprincipled Republicans.

Alfonzo Rachel

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Adlai Stevenson

We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Adlai Stevenson

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Adlai Stevenson

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

Aung San Suu Kyi

To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Martin Pitt