Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Nader

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Patrick Murphy

I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.

A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics.

Tommy Lee Jones

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

Charles H. Percy

Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

Caspar Weinberger

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

Dennis Miller

Al Gore couldn't be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator

Ed Koch

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

Charles Krauthammer

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Billy Joel

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

William Shakespeare

Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.

Max Cannon

Now interpersonal politics... that's what it's all about.

Practicing politics is like professional football. You have to be smart enough to understand the rules and stupid enough to think what you are doing is important.

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

Phyllis George

That's when the seed was planted. I didn't know a lot about the politics of putting a woman on the air. I just saw one.

Alex Cox

That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.

Barbara Mertz

Money was the manure of politics ...

Arthur Miller

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Benito Mussolini

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

Benjamin Disraeli

Information upon points of practical politics.

Benjamin Disraeli

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Benjamin Disraeli

Finality is not the language of politics.

Benjamin Disraeli

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

Calvin Coolidge

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Al Gore

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Arthur Balfour

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

Anthony Trollope

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

Craig Ferguson

I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.

Bob Dole

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

Bob Dylan

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

Bob Dylan

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

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