Politics Quotes

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

Oliver Cromwell

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

Damon Albarn

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

Michael K. Simpson

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

Johnny Rotton

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

Ambrose Bierce

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Emma Goldman

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Emma Goldman

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

George Bernard Shaw

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

Tabitha Soren

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Harry S. Truman

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

Mahatma Gandhi

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Henry Cate

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Joyce Cary

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

Ronald Reagan

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

Grover Norquist

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Henry A. Kissinger

Politics is a highly tribal business.

Nick Clegg

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

Bruce Willis