Politics Quotes

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."

"If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve."

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."

"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

"Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

"Politics have no relation to morals."

"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."

"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

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

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."

"Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you."

"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today."

"Man is by nature a political animal."

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."

"People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House."

"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."

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."

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

"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."