Quotes about Politics

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

We are all Federalists, and we are all Republicans.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

you cannot have a political solution for a spiritual problem. You must have spiritual solutions for spiritual problems!

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

You'll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.