Political Quotes

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  Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks and frauds. It has been so since the earliest days, and it will probably remain so until the end of time.
  H.L. Mencken


• 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


• Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
  Richard Armour


• We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
  Martin L. Gross


• We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.
  Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard


• Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
  Author Unknown


• What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
  Abraham Lincoln


• There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
  Alexis de Tocqueville


• We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
  Martin L. Gross


• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
  Nikita Khrushchev


• The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is... the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
  Adlai Stevenson


• Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.
  Saul Bellow


• Truth is not determined by majority vote.
  Doug Gwyn


• All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
  Albert Einstein


• 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


• Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
  Charles Krauthammer


• I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.
  Clarie Sargent


• The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club.
  Dave Barry


• Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.
  Woodrow Wilson


• A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
  Leo Rosten


• When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
  Clarence Darrow


• Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
  Winston Churchill


• Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
  H.L. Mencken


• I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
  Cissy Farenthold


• I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.
  Adlai Stevenson


• I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
  Charles de Gaulle


• If God had been a Liberal there wouldn't have been Ten Commandments, there would have been Ten Suggestions.
  Malcolm Bradbury


• Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom.
  Plato


• 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




Thank you for passing by my political quotes page. I love a lot of these political quotes because I believe them to be true. Politics can be a dirty game and it’s difficult to find good politicians who truly care for the people.




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