Politics Quotes - Page 8

• The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Commitment, Democracy, Essentials

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2007). “Composing a Life”, p.155, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

  Ogden Nash

  Politician, Lord, Fingers

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• The world is a dangerous place to live

  Albert Einstein

  Dangerous World, Evil, Apathy

  Joseph Eger, Albert Einstein (2005). “Einstein's Violin: A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Change”, Tarcher

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• I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it?

  Bob Hope

  Government, Perfect, Addresses

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• If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

  Aesop

  Men, Political, Purpose

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.33, Pelekanos Books

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• What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

  Bernard Crick

  Men, What Matters, Acting

  Bernard Crick (2013). “In Defence of Politics”, p.129, A&C Black

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• It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Society, Politician, Unfair

  W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Plays Volume One”, p.161, Random House

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• n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Funny, Life

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

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

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Party, Men, America

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• Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

  H. L. Mencken

  Liberty, Auctions, Election

  "Prejudices: First Series". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1919.

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• The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Political, Pay, Administration

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• It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it

  Jimmy Buffett

  Honesty, Political, Suffering

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• In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

  George Will

  Mean, Sacrifice, Class

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• The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Political, Society, Events

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• I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Class, Hatred, Society

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• You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

  Mario Cuomo

  Poetry, Political, Campaigns

  The New Republic, April 04, 1985.

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• What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Humorous, Political

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• What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Country, Humorous

  Ambrose Bierce (1968). “The Ambrose Bierce satanic reader: selections from the invective journalism of the great satirist”

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• We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

  Hugh Sidey

  Blather, Deals, Boast

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• I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Thinking, Political, Hours

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• If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Politician, Media Training, Ifs

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• If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

  Kin Hubbard

  Hate, Libertarian, Public Speaking

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• After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

  George C. Wallace

  Political, Mountain, Lasts

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• Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

  George H. W. Bush

  Running, Romance, Political

  "Like Father, Like Son" by Brooke Shelby Biggs, www.motherjones.com. June 1, 2001.

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• Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing.

  Bob Rae

  Forgiving, Forget

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