politics & politicians Quotes

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

Voters don’t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. -George Will

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. -Gore Vidal

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. -Paul Valery

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. -Stewart L. Udall

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -Will Rogers

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. -Texas Guinan

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. -Winston Churchill

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome. -Benjamin Whichcote

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

During a campaign the air is full of speeches - and vice versa. –Anonymous

We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in. -Will Rogers

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. -Winston Churchill

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until… lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power… become lovers of wisdom. –Plato

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

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. -Adlai Stevenson

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

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

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. -W.C. Fields

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

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. -Thomas Love Peacock

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married? -Barbara Streisand

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up. -Ogden Nash

I’ve had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn’t. -Patrick Murray

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage. -Lord Byron

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. -Elie Wiesel

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. -Arnold H. Glasow

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. -Abraham Lincoln

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations–we’re doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. -Rodney Dangerfield

Women are confusing. They hate it when you ask how old they are, then they turn around and bite your head off if you forget their birthday. -Scott E. Roeben