Politics Quotes

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy

Future, Past, Blame

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

Idiot, Congress, Repeat

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato

End, Governed, Refusing

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

Government, Put, Sand

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin

Nothing, Everything, Enough

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

Put, Violence, Hearts

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Philosophy, Moral, Modern

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

End, Patient, Provided

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill

Respect, Law, Destroy

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston Churchill

Greatest, Country, Healthy

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

Keep, Whole, Aim

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle

Men, Democracy, Property

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

Business, Game, Earnest

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson

Eye, Begins, Whenever

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.
P. J. O'Rourke

Good, Bad, Everything

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain

Real, Except, Force

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Good, Forward, Two

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Emma Goldman

Voting, Changed, Illegal

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas Sowell

Today, Play, Same

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Nelson Mandela

America, Ask, United

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams

Alone, Lost, May

A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers

Money, Fool, Soon

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken

Thankful, Sorrow, Republican

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson

Men, Ambition, Office

Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Morals, Relation

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