Politics quotes

“I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.” John Adams

“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.” Edmund Burke

“Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.” Edmund Burke

“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.” Ambrose Bierce

“Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.” Ambrose Bierce

“Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.” Ambrose Bierce

“Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.” Ambrose Bierce

“Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.” John Kenneth Galbraith

“To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.” Hubert Humphrey

“Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.” George Jean Nathan

“Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” Reinhold Niebuhr

“A fool and his money are soon elected.” Will Rogers

“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell

“Politics is the art of controlling your environment.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

“To the men in Washington, the world is just a giant Monopoly board.” Woody Harrelson