Politics Quotes

"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business."

"If you can't convince them, confuse them."

"The polls that matter are the polls taken on election day."

"Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."

"The state of the Union rests in the hands of the electorate."

"You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook."

"The two-party system prevents the dictatorship of either party."

"A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a calm man to understand the calm."

"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

"Democracy may not be perfect, but it is better than any alternative."

"The kind of society which we have is the kind of government that we get."

"I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism."

"A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation."

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much."

"Patriotism cannot be our final message to the world."

"Politics is the art of the possible."

"Politics should serve the people, not the powerful."

"Tyranny is always better disguised in its busiest periods."

"Democracy is when the indigent vote with a democracy of their own."

"In Burma, as in every other country in the world, the most dangerous enemy of the people is not any foreign invader, it is the bad government."

"Democracy requires participation."

"The future is on the ballot."

"Democracy is not a spectator sport."

"Fear has been used as a political tool for a very long time."

"We've got to change our political culture."

"I think we need to inject some of that sense of possibility into our politics."

"We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves."

"Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us."

"We should not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt."

"In my judgment, the image of politics and politicians in America has deteriorated."