Quotes & Sayings

• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -Plato

• Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -George Burns

• Honesty in politics is much like oxygen. The higher up you go, the scarcer it becomes.

• A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life. -Robert Byrne

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

• The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that’s out always looks the best. -Will Rogers

• Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that. -William J. Clinton – Bill Clinton

• Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -George Jean Nathan

• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where they is no river. -Nikita Khrushchev

• Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing. -Bernard M. Baruch

• A politician will do anything to keep his job even become a patriot. -William Randolph Hearst

• 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

• The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’. -Larry Hardiman

• Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. -Mao Tse-Tung

• Politics – I don’t know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together. -Sean O’Casey