Quotes about politics
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. – Groucho Marx
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. – Napoleon Bonaparte
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
The only thing worse than a politician is a child with a politician parent. – Will Rogers
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs that properly concern them. – Paul Valery
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
The problem with political jokes is they get elected. – Henry Cate VII
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. – Ernest Benn
Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting–or even demanding–their own enslavement. – Larken Rose
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. – Winston Churchill
Politics is the art of controlling your environment. – Hunter S. Thompson
Politics is the art of the possible. – Otto von Bismarck
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable the art of the next best. – Otto von Bismarck
All politics are based on the indifference of the majority. – James Reston
The problem with political jokes is they get elected. – Henry Cate VII
Politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. – Charles de Gaulle
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. – Clare Boothe Luce
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. – Ronald Reagan
Career politicians have done more damage to this country than all the terrorists combined. – Mark Lunsford
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. – John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. – Ernest Benn
Politics makes strange bedfellows. – Charles Dudley Warner
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. – Sir Winston Churchill
Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to ruleand both commonly succeed, and are right. – H.L. Mencken
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world: My own government, I can not be silent. – Martin Luther King Jr.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. – Mao Zedong
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. – John Jay Chapman
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. – Newt Gingrich
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. – Thomas Sowell
Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended. – Saddam Hussein
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. – Frank Zappa
Silence is argument carried out by other means. – Ernesto Che Guevara
The biggest lesson I’ve learned by living in Washington, D.C.: the only way to make them behave is to make them afraid. – Newt Gingrich
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. – Karl Marx
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. – Gerald Ford
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. – Ambrose Bierce
It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it. – John Pilger
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. – Groucho Marx
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. – Theodore Roosevelt
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of politics. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. – George Orwell
Politics should be limited in power so as not to attract those who are corruptible. – Ron Paul
The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen. – Louis Brandeis
Man is by nature a political animal. – Aristotle
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. – Ronald Reagan
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. – Napoleon Bonaparte
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
There is no gambling like politics. – Benjamin Disraeli
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote. – George Jean Nathan