Politics Quotes

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein

Future, Forward, Woman

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal

American, President, Run

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon

Good, Bad, Vote

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop

Great, Public, Office

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Love, Power, Artist

In politics the middle way is none at all.
John Adams

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
Harry S. Truman

Friend, Dog, Washington

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm

Successful, Criminal, Statesman

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson

Change, Giving, Might

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Giving, Democracy, Happen

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

Men, America, Both

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S. Truman

Time, Public, President

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett

Forward, Person, Hell

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

Men, Fight, Important

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

Business, Death, Heart

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O'Rourke

Selling, Buying, Controlled

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Knows, Flatter, Slander

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater

Justice, Liberty, Virtue

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal

Great, Democracy, Place

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

Long, Wrong, Left

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal

Same, American, Read

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
Pope John Paul II

Society, America, Free

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman

Hell, Fury, Scorned

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold H. Glasow

Brain, Idea, Action

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