politics Quotes

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

A politician will do anything to keep his job – even become a patriot.

If you don’t like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don’t like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don’t like me, 90 cents.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

I think it’s a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action.