Politics Quotes

"There's a reason they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."

"Politics is simple: everyone lies. Everyone. Including me, right now."

"The world needs more honesty and less political correctness."

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned how to walk forward."

"If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it."

"Every time I think that I've had enough of the banality of evil, I think of Richard Nixon."

"The New York Times is read by the people who run the country. The Washington Post is read by the people who think they run the country."

"Not to discuss politics is to discuss politics."

"A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifteen years."

"The most important thing for a politician is not to be smart, but to appear smart."

"Liberals are more fun, but Conservatives are easier to argue with."

"A political convention is just a place to hang crepe."

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

"Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose incentive to invest. As if they're going to take it abroad!"

"Paying taxes should be painless."

"Today, the most important thing is the election. Tomorrow, it won't be important."

"The Constitution is not a suicide pact."

"You're assuming that Congress is thinking. Congress is not thinking."

"American foreign policy is to do nothing unless it affects corporate interests."

"I've seen more evil in the Republican Party than I ever saw in God."

"I don't think the government is really interested in aliens."

"Politics is the only field in which the more improbable the candidate, the better he does."

"The right wing hasn't had a new idea in thirty years."

"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."

"I would consider the social democratic movement the greatest achievement of the twentieth century."

"The liberals can understand everything but people, and the conservatives don't understand anything but people."

"Every time I hear a politician tell me that they've had a religious experience, I know I'm being played for a sucker."

"The best thing about being a conservative is that you don't have to think anymore."

"There's no business like show business, but there is politics."

"The most important thing about a political candidate is not what he says, but what he doesn't say."