Politics Quotes - Page 39

It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.

Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.

The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

A Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, George Soros, or Al Gore looks - no, acts - like he either came out of a hairstylist's salon or got off a Gulfstream.

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it

I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.

Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.

Justice is the one thing you should always find.

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.