- A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
- Woodrow Wilson on Politics
- A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on Politics
- A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
- Leo Rosten on Politics
- A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
- Woodrow Wilson on Politics
- A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.
- Peter Jennings on Politics
- A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
- Caskie Stinnett on Politics
- A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.
- Ron Fournier on Politics
- A fool and his money are soon elected.
- Will Rogers on Politics
- A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright on Politics
- A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
- Charles W. Pickering on Politics
- A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
- Harry S. Truman on Politics
- A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
- Leonard Bernstein on Politics
- A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
- Carter Glass on Politics
- A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!
- Theresa May on Politics
- A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.
- Ani DiFranco on Politics
- A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
- William Randolph on Politics
- A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
- Paul Wellstone on Politics
- A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
- Robert Byrne on Politics
- A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.
- Howard Fineman on Politics
- A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
- Theodore Roosevelt on Politics
- A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
- Albert Pike on Politics
- A week is a long time in politics.
- Harold Wilson on Politics
- A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?
- Jon Meacham on Politics
- A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.
- Eliot Spitzer on Politics
- Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
- Nicholas D. Kristof on Politics
- About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.
- Howie Carr on Politics
- Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.
- Thomas Frank on Politics
- Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.
- Shailene Woodley on Politics
- Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
- Christopher Lasch on Politics
- African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.
- Alveda King on Politics
- After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
- Billy Sunday on Politics
- After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.
- Dee Dee Myers on Politics
- After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
- George C. Wallace on Politics
- After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
- Walt Whitman on Politics
- All politics is local.
- Thomas P. O'Neill on Politics
- All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
- Harry S. Truman on Politics
- All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.
- Godfrey Reggio on Politics
- 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 on Politics
- Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.
- Fritz Sauckel on Politics
- Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
- John Quincy Adams on Politics
- America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.
- Alveda King on Politics
- America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.
- Warren G. Harding on Politics
- American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.
- Michael Mandelbaum on Politics
- American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
- Bob Schieffer on Politics
- Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.
- Tom Tancredo on Politics
- An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
- Arnold H. Glasow on Politics
- An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
- Adlai E. Stevenson on Politics
- And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.
- Christy Romano on Politics
- And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
- Vince Cable on Politics
- And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.
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