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 rule—and 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