Politics Quotes - Page 13

• The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

  Karl Marx

  Long, Society, Church

  "By Appointment With the Future Queen" by Farzana Versey, www.counterpunch.org. April 28, 2011.

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• It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

  Stephen Leacock

  Political, Economy, Politics And Economics

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• He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Party, Men, Society

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• He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

  Queen Victoria

  Speak, Politician, Meetings

  In G. W. E. Russell 'Collections and Recollections' (1898) ch. 14

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• Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Faces, Politician

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• Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

  Harold Rosenberg

  Struggle, Self, Numbers

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• If people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Law, People, Drug

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

  Charles Olson

  Government, Nuisance, Cease

  Charles Olson (1979). “Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews”

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• Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice

  George H. W. Bush

  Advice, Shapes, Plans

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• Men in high levels of government seldom surf.

  Rita Rudner

  Men, Levels, Surf

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• I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.

  Pablo Picasso

  Shoes, Special, Hammers

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• If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Political, Would Be, Unnecessary

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• Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

  Mason Cooley

  Islands, People, Three

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• I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

  Red Skelton

  Done, Politician, Picks

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• Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the same thing. It's a matter of attitudes.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Art, Attitude, Political

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• In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Politician, Absurdity

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• If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Lines, Rooms, Politician

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• There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.

  Will Rogers

  Ties, Election, Praying

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Both gangs have been bad sports, so see if at least one can't redeem themselves by offering no alibis, but cooperate with the winner, for no matter which one it is the poor fellow is going to need it.

  Will Rogers

  Sports, Offering, Matter

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• I do honestly believe the Republicans have reformed and want to do better. But whether they have done it in time to win the election is another thing. The old voter is getting so he wants to be saved before October every election year.

  Will Rogers

  Believe, Winning, Years

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• I make a living off (politicians), so I can't knock 'em. Every time we elect some fellow we think he's terrible and then when we get another one in he's worse. So, I am always in favor of keeping the one we've got and let the other go.

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Ems, Favors

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• Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Talking

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• I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Bird, Answers

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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• The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.

  Will Rogers

  Mean, Way, Committees

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• The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.

  Will Rogers

  Waiting, President, Want

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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