Politicians And Politics Quotes

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

  Aesop

  Witty, Government, Political Will

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

  George Orwell

  Witty, Peace, Truth

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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  Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

  Groucho Marx

  Art, Freedom, Political Will

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• Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

  Oscar Ameringer

  Life, Witty, Art

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• I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Life, Political, Politics

  Quoted in Clement Attlee, A Prime Minister Remembers (1961) See Briand 2; Clemenceau 4

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• A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Witty, Thinking, Political

  "A Politician’s Christmas Carol" by Tom Gerdy, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2012.

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  Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Funny, Witty, Political

  Familiar Studies of Men and Books "Yoshida-Torajiro" (1882)

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• An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

  Simon Cameron

  Honesty, Political Will, Definitions

  Attributed in "Chronicles of America Series" by Allen Johnson, Yale University Press, 1918.

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  The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Trust, Witty

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1079, RosettaBooks

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• A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Humorous, Next Week

  In B. Adler Churchill Wit (1965) p. 4

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• Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Political, Cynical

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Stupid, Skills, Political

  "Chambers Dictionary of Political Biography". Book by John Ransley, p. 345, 1991.

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• Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

  Alexander Pope

  Party, Political, Politics

  Letter to Edward Blount, 27 August 1714, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 1, p. 247

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• A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

  E. B. White

  Suicide, Suicidal, Presidential

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

  Doug Larson

  Change, Keys, Cities

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• Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Trust, Witty, Freedom

  In Ernest Mignon Les Mots du G‚n‚ral (1962) p. 67

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• A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

  John Jay Chapman

  Organization, Political, Thieves

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Politics, Opinion

  'Biographical Studies' (1881) 'The Character of Sir Robert Peel'

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  Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Political Will, Greed, Nerd

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.271, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Evil, Political, Wish

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 56

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• Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

  Jonathan Swift

  Party, Political, Politics

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellanies, by Mr. Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Gay, &c. Prose miscellanies by Swift and Sheridan”, p.255

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• Finality is not the language of politics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Language

  'Hansard' 28 February 1859

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• 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

  Years, Long, Greed

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

  Mao Zedong

  War, Chinese Revolution, Political Will

  Lecture, 1938, in Selected Works (1965) vol. 2, p. 153

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• Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Art, Freedom, Political

  "Don't blame Alistair Darling. He's just the brush and bucket" by Andrew Rawnsley, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2008.

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