Politics Quotes

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

Power, Corrupt, Corrupts

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Jimmy Carter

Men, Future, Afraid

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Nothing, Value, Ignorant

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
George MacDonald

Nature, Men, Best

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Lovely, Oh, Title

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Robert Byrne

Democracy, Vote, Dislike

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
Carter Glass

Money, Else, Somebody

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
Cal Thomas

Power, Truth, Hate

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
Lewis Black

Bad, Nothing, Ideas

In politics nothing is contemptible.
Benjamin Disraeli

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
Dick Gregory

Country, Voting, Duty

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis D. Brandeis

Respect, Law, Desire

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
Edward Koch

Speak, Writers, Windows

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

Become, Beginning, President

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Warren G. Harding

Revolution, Healing, America

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Ross Perot

Dirty, Says, River

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Thurgood Marshall

Men, Power, Government

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
John W. Gardner

Poverty, Talent, Hundred

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
Barbara Bush

May, Lord, President

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Art, Between, Choosing

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
Daniel Hannan

Cannot, Debt, Spend

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Reason, Aware, Liberalism

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle

Become, Order, Master

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
John W. Gardner

Government, May, Two

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson

Thinks, Mostly, Sits

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