Politics Quotes

"I respect no laws that hinder my ambition."

"I respect the laws I wrote myself."

"The public exists to serve my interests."

"Politics is the science of managing competing interests toward common good."

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned."

"Political destiny and personal honor must never be separated."

"Politics should be guided by justice and reason."

"The public be damned. I don't take any stock in this silly nonsense about working for anybody's good but our own."

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

"Gold is democracy made material; whoever has it controls the conversation."

"The public loves a man who tells them what they wish to hear."

"Gold speaks louder than all the eloquence in the halls of government."

"The man who operates only within the law has surrendered the advantage to those who do not."

"I have observed that the law follows commerce, never leading it."

"Politics should be the servant of the people."

"Politics at its best serves the common good."

"Politics is the art of managing human nature for the common good."

"Politics reflects the values we hold as a society."

"Politics is the art of compromise; the question is what principles we refuse to surrender."

"Politics reveals what we truly believe by observing what we are willing to sacrifice."

"Political systems are only as just as the people who inhabit them."

"The prosperity of the laborer is the prosperity of the nation."

"The state should invest in its youth through education and opportunity."

"The statesman thinks of his nation's future, not his own comfort."

"The future of America depends on the character of its leaders."

"Politics requires both principle and pragmatism."

"Politics at its best serves the common good."

"The politics of humanity transcend the politics of nations."

"Politics should serve justice, or it serves only power."

"The development of the West is the manifest destiny of American enterprise"