Quotes about Politics

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Although she didn't have the plumbing, she deluded herself that she was the modern W.C. (about Margaret Thatcher, M.T.)

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

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

I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President -- should he be Catholic -- how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference, and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him, or the people who might elect him.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

Described Washington as a community of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism.