Politics Quotes

A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

Heywood Broun

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Harry S. Truman

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Joseph Cannon

Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

George Canning

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

W. J. Cameron

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

Mark Twain

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Mark Twain

In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

Mark Twain

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

Hugh Sidey

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Winston Churchill

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

Karl Rove

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

Frank Moore Colby

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

Roger Ebert

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Thomas Jefferson

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

Todd Gitlin

The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics.

John Sununu

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.

Benjamin Disraeli

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Amy Grant