Politics Quotes and Sayings

I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it ?

Although he’s regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

We’d all like to vote for the best man, but he’s never a candidate

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

A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

George Washington is the only president who didn’t blame the previous administration for his troubles.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Don’t vote, it only encourages them.

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.

If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

If you want something said, ask a man…if you want something done, ask a woman.

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