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“Thoughts have power. Thoughts have energy. You can make your world or break it by your thinking.” – Susan Taylor.
In this post, we round up some of the best political quotes about politicians, politics and government you'll find -- quotes that help us see our country as it is and hopefully strive to make it as it should be.
» Quotes that Define Politics
"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other." –Oscar Ameringer
"The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly,' meaning 'many,' and the word 'ticks,' meaming 'blood-sucking parasites'." –Larry Hardiman
"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." –Ronald Reagan
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." –Groucho Marx
"We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics." –Hubert H. Humphry
» Thoughts on Political Careers
"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career." –George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 3
"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process." – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life." –Robert Byrne
"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free men." –Dwight Eisenhower
» Quotes on Who We Elect to Office
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it" – Clarence Darrow
"Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote." –George Jean Nathan
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." –Aesop
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." –Plato
"How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?" – Anonymous
"The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected." – Will Rogers
» Quotes About Politicians
"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country." –Texas Guinan
"Politicians are people who, when they see a light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel." –John Quinton
"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." –Doug Larson
"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." –Charles de Gaulle
"Statesmen tell you what is true even though it may be unpopular. Politicians will tell you what is popular, even though it may be untrue." – Anonymous
"A politician thinks of the next election, a statesman of the next generation." – James Freeman Clarke
"When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whatsoever, I think there's one of two things there: There's money or the promise of money." –Allan Boesak
"In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well." –Len Deighton
“What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.” –Robert Kennedy
» Quotes About Congress
"If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress?'" –Paul Harvey
"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." –Mark Twain
"When they call the roll in the Seate, Senators don't know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'" –Theodore Roosevelt
"Congressmen are the only group in America who every two years have to go out and beg for their jobs." –Cokie Roberts
"There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen and never enough U.S. congressmen." ~ Sydney J. Harris
» Truths About Government
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." –Ronald Reagan
"The mystery of government is not how Washington works, but how to make it stop." –P.J. O'Rourke
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys". –P. J. O'Rourke
"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program." –Milton Friedman
“All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government. ” –Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address (20 January 1981)
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" –Ronald Reagan
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