Political Mottos, political quotes and phrases. |
“What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?”
Abraham Lincoln
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”
Plato
“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.”
Nikita Khrushchev
“Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.”
John Quinton
“The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.”
Maureen Murphy
“A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.”
Texas Guinan
“The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.”
Barack Obama
“In politics, it’s what isn’t said that matters.”
K. J. Parker
“The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one’s country and its people.”
Henry Ford
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
Ernest Benn
“Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.”
Will Rogers
“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
Mark Twain
“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
Robert Orben
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
Winston Churchill
“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”
Abraham Lincoln
“All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.”
John Steinbeck