Harry S. Truman Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Leadership, Witty

  Television interview by Edward R. Murrow, CBS, 27 May 1955

• Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

  Harry S. Truman

  Political, Term Limits, Disease

• Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.

  Harry S. Truman

  Patriotic, Apology, Political

• Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Dog, Wall

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

• A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Running, Government, Cynical

  Harry S. Truman (1956). “Years of trial and hope”

• The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

  Harry S. Truman

  Political, President, Politics

• If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Hilarious, Dog

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

• When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Party, Government

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

• Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.

  Harry S. Truman

  Sunday, Pigs, Politics

• I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Turkeys, Political

• A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

  Harry S. Truman

  Humorous, Office, Political

• When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Humor, Government

  Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959, in Truman Speaks (1960) p. 51

• A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  Patriotic, Men, America

• Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Political, Politics

  Harry S. Truman (1966). “Good old Harry: the wit and wisdom of Harry S. Truman”

• A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Business, Leader

• 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

  Kissing, Men, People

  Letter to his sister, 14 Nov. 1947, in Off the Record: the Private Papers of Harry S. Truman (1980) p. 119

• [The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, 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

  Liars, Kissing, Men

  Letter to his sister, 14 Nov. 1947, in Off the Record: the Private Papers of Harry S. Truman (1980) p. 119

• Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.

  Harry S. Truman

  Art, Government, Games

  Harry S. Truman, Ralph Keyes (1995). “Wit and wisdom of Harry Truman”, Harpercollins

• You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

  Harry S. Truman

  Believe, Political, Politics

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

• A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

  Harry S. Truman

  Patriotic, Men, Years

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations".

• This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

  Harry S. Truman

  Years, Political, Politics

• I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

  Harry S. Truman

  Witty, Political, Six Months

• It sure is hell to be president.

  Harry S. Truman

  Political, President, Politics

  Harry S. Truman, Bess Wallace Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1998). “Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959”, p.530, University of Missouri Press

• The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.

  Harry S. Truman

  People, Working Together, United States

• Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

  Harry S. Truman

  Running, Country, Lying

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