There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.
Julian Bond
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
Winston Churchill
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Otto von Bismarck
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
Theodore Roosevelt
He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
Edward R. Murrow
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
Jacques Barzun
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
George Washington
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.
C.S Lewis
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke
Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
Nelson Mandela