Top Politics Quotes

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act.

Politics Definition

(n.) The science of government; that part of ethics which has to do with the regulation and government of a nation or state, the preservation of its safety, peace, and prosperity, the defense of its existence and rights against foreign control or conquest, the augmentation of its strength and resources, and the protection of its citizens in their rights, with the preservation and improvement of their morals.

(n.) The management of a political party; the conduct and contests of parties with reference to political measures or the administration of public affairs; the advancement of candidates to office; in a bad sense, artful or dishonest management to secure the success of political candidates or parties; political trickery.

To impart a moral responsibility to exercise fairness in leadership builds greater leaders of strong character.

To restrict or legalize abortion, to allow or forbid gay marriage, a legislator would need to write and pass a law, get it signed by the president or a governor, and perhaps override a veto. A Supreme...

I saw America's economy last night, people raiding dumpsters at a higher rate than normal in my home town. Digging through garbage shouldn't be a career. Thanks Democrats. Thanks Republicans.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Any leader who feel the pain and fight for you. Support him or you lose but if that leader doesn't feel the pain and fight for you. Don't support him, fight for yourself, be a leader and fight for oth...

Thou hast given a right judgment, but why judge thou not thyself also?

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

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.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.

The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.

Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public.

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.

There has never been a more important time to vote for the Green Party!

The world is not static and the status quo is not sacred.