Quotes about Politics
The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
- Edmund Burke
There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.
- Ronald Reagan
It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
- Will Rogers
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
- Frederick Douglass
The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'
- George Clooney
Influence is not government.
- George Washington
Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.
- Max Lucado
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.
- Mark Twain
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.
- Ronald Reagan
If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.
- Jerry Falwell
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
- Woodrow Wilson