Politics Quotes

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Walter Bagehot

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Walter Bagehot

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Walter Bagehot

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

Roland Joffe

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

George Borrow

This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.

Thomas Frank

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

Stephen King

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.

Michael Pollan

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Aneurin Bevan

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

Hubert H. Humphrey

I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.

George Papandreou

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

P. J. O'Rourke

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Madame Chiang KaiShek

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

Freeman Dyson

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

Alexei Sayle

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

Paul Wellstone

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Robert Frost

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Ambrose Bierce