Quotes about Politics

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.

It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with — and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism.

Socialism is the epithet they have hurled at every advance the people have made.

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.