The Political Quotes List Page

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people." - Oscar Wilde

"War is God's way of teaching geography to Americans" - Ambrose Bierce

"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the bastards" - Claire Wolfe

"There is no hell, there's only France" - Frank Zappa

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his" - Patton

"The complete lack of evidence is the surest sign that the conspiracy is working."

"When the president does it, that means it's not illegal " - Richard M. Nixon

"I think it would be a great idea" - Mohandas Ghandi's answer when asked what he thought of Western Civilization

"The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter. " - Winston Churchill

"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. " - Henry Kissinger

"Guidelines for bureaucrats:
(1) When in charge, ponder.
(2) When in trouble, delegate.
(3) When in doubt, mumble. " - James Boren

"Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan. " - Count Galeazzo Ciano

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. " - Abba Eban

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. " - John Galbraith

"You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. " - Henrik Ibsen

"It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. " - William Ralph Inge

"It was involuntary. They sank my boat. " - John Kennedy [When asked how he became a war hero]

"Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. " - Bernard Baruch

"Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. " - Harry Truman

"A camel is a horse designed by a committee."

"Only the insane have strength enough to prosper. Only those who prosper may truly judge what is sane."

"The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected "

"Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government. " - Arthur Hoppe

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics. " - Benjamin Disraeli

"How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? " - Harry Truman

"Deal with the devil if the devil has a constituency. And don't complain about the heat." - Old political proverb

"The critics don't build great cities " - Federico Pena

"An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition. " - Henry Kissinger

"There is more at stake here than our lives." - Col. Travis, Alamo Pep Talk

"Don't vote, it only encourages them. " - Old anarchist proverb

"Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins" - William James

"Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying." - E. B. White

"I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here." - Charles Dickens

"Truth never damages a cause that is just." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government. " - Gloria Steinem

"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." - Paul Lutus

"The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left - the King of England, the King of Spades, the King of Clubs, the King of Hearts and the King of Diamonds. " - King Farouk of Egypt

"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. " - Orson Welles

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