Politics Quotes

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

Our nations are so close yet such a visit took 17 years. This will change & we will strengthen India-Nepal ties.

The respect that I have got is not for Narendra Modi or the PM of India. It is respect for the people of India.

I am confident that Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana will open the doors of good politics.

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

The voting records of virtually every member of Congress reveal that the oath of office is more a ceremonial gesture than a sacred commitment.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

If someone was to introduce hope and idealism into our political system, I think the tension that would create in other areas would certainly be ripe. You would think that if you bring oxygen to the organism, the organism lives. But there may be other organisms in there that thrive in darkness and in a more anaerobic environment. Watching those creatures writhe will always be interesting.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

I've always wanted to do more significant stuff. I think of myself as well-informed, but the hardest thing to do is talk about politics and current events and be funny and not just preachy.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore its position as a prosperous, fair, well-educated nation. For if we don't, the current pattern of great concentration of wealth and power will worsen, and we may face the steady immiseration of most of the American population.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.

The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

Career politicians do not have the courage to prioritize spending and say no to demanding special interest groups who do not reflect the best interests of the country.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is that the Democrat is a cannibal, they live off each other, while the Republicans live off the Democrats.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything we hear nothing.

This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.

Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.