Politics Quotes
Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations between individuals. Politics play a large role in shaping our society. As voters, it is our duty to exercise our voting rights wisely.
In this article, you will find an array of political quotes that will help you see the world from a different perspective and guide you to choose your leaders wisely.
65 Quotes About Politics & Politicians
“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell
“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.” – George E. MacDonald
“Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.” – Winston Churchill
“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.” – Winston Churchill
“An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.” – Mark Twain
“Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and all for the same reason.” – José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.” – Nikita Krushchev
“Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?” – Robert Brault
“An empty stomach is not a good political advisor. “ – Albert Einstein
“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.” – Clarence Darrow
“When the political columnists say ‘Every thinking man’ they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to ‘Every intelligent voter’ they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.” – Franklin P. Adams
“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Politics is not a game, but a serious business.” – Winston Churchill
“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right.” – H.L. Mencken
“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” – Emma Goldman
“Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.” – Don Lucchese
“Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.” – John F. Kennedy
“Statesmen tell you what is true even though it may be unpopular. Politicians will tell you what is popular, even though it may be untrue.” – Anonymous
“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.” – Charles de Gaulle
“Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.” – Doug Larson
“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.” – George Jean Nathan
“Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.” – Peggy Noonan
“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.” – Richard Armour
“Democrats think the glass is half full. Republicans think the glass is theirs.” – Anonymous
“In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. “ – Margaret Thatcher
“When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.” – Barack Obama
“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.” – George Eliot
“Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.” – Walter Lippmann
“A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.” – Murray Kempton
“A politician thinks of the next election – a statesman of the next generation.” – James Freeman Clarke
“Now I know what a statesman is; he’s a dead politician. We need more statesmen!” – Bob Edwards
“Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.” – John Quinton
“I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country. “– John Ensign
“Democracy is about voting and it’s about a majority vote. And it’s time that we started exercising the Democratic process.” – Debbie Stabenow
“Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it.” – Susan B. Anthony
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” – Groucho Marx
“Elections belong to the people.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Politicians say they’re beefing up our economy. Most don’t know beef from pork.” – Harold Lowman
“This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
“If we don’t vote, we are ignoring history and giving away the future.” – Pat Mitchell
“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.” – Aristotle
“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. “ – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“In politics stupidity is not a handicap. “ – Napoleon Bonaparte
“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.” – Oscar Ameringer
“The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites.’” – Larry Hardiman
“So, if we lie to the government, it’s a felony. If they lie to us, it’s politics.” – Bill Murray
“Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.” – Mao Zedong
“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.” – Charles de Gaulle
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” – Plato
“A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.” – Carl Sandburg
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” – Winston Churchill
“Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.” – Plato
“We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.” – Martin L. Gross
“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
“Politics, noun. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.” – Ambrose Bierce
“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
“90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.” – Henry Kissinger
“As between God, country and apple pie, politicians have done the least harm in the name of apple pie.” – Robert Brault
“A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing underneath it. “ – Austin O’Malley
“A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.” – Texas Guinan
“Every election is determined by the people who show up.” – Larry J. Sabato
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” – Edward R. Murrow