Politics Quotes

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Kin Hubbard

If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Kin Hubbard

I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Kin Hubbard

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

Kin Hubbard

Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Jean Baudrillard

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Jean Baudrillard

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Jean Baudrillard

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Jean Baudrillard

All fundamental political problems are problems of relationships; therefore, all fundamental solutions have to involve fundamental changes in relationships.

David Mathews, The Dialogue of D

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

H. L. Mencken

I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Lord Byron

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Oscar Ameringer

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Kingsley Amis

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Mahatma Gandhi

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

John P. Roche

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heinrich Heine

Patriotism is not obedience to government. Patriotism is obedience to the principals for which government is supposed to stand.

Howard Zinn

You don't have power if you surrender all your principles -- you have office.

Ron Todd

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

Harry S. Truman