Politics Quotes
Under every stone lurks a politician.
Aristophanes
Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.
Hannah Arendt
Politics is history in the present tense.
John P. Avlon
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
All politicians are humble, and seldom let you forget it. They go around the country boasting about their humility. They are proud of their humility. Many are downright arrogant about their humility and insist that it qualifies them to be President.
Russell Baker
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Fawn McKay Brodie
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Vera Mary Brittain
I think we are suffering from political impotence. We need political Viagra.
Hugo Chavez
A political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief.
George Walker Bush
There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrtien
To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrtien
The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrtien
Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrtien
Politics is a game of friends.
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrtien
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous ... [I]n war, you can only be killed once. But in politics many times.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
