politics Quotes

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.