Politics Quotes - Page 31

I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.

When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.

If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore.

Political Correctness is inverted McCarthyism.