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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
-Henry Cate
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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
-Michel De Certeau
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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
-John Jay Chapman
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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.
-John Jay Chapman
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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.
-John Jay Chapman
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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
-John Jay Chapman
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Half a truth is better than no politics.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
-Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
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There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
-Shirley Chisholm
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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
-Alan Clark
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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
-James Freeman Clarke
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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.
-William Jefferson Clinton
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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.
-William Jefferson Clinton
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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
-Arthur H. Clough
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If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
-Frank Moore Colby
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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
-Frank Moore Colby, 1926
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
-James Fenimore Cooper
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
-Oliver Cromwell
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Books about Politics
