Politics and Politicians Quotes

  • I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
    ~ Cissy Farenthold
  • Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
    ~ Author Unknown
  • A conservative is one who admires radicals' centuries after they're dead.
    ~ Leo Rosten
  • I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.
    ~ Clarie Sargent
  • Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of clinches the first prize.
    ~ Saul Bellow
  • 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, 1956
  • All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
    ~ Albert Einstein
  • George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles.
    ~ Author Unknown
  • In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
    ~ Charles de Gaulle
  • Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
    ~ Nikita Khrushchev
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