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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
-George Eliot
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There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
-Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
-Nora Ephron
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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.
-Desiderius Erasmus
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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.
-Franklin Field
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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.
-John Fischer
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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
-Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
-Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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The first mistake in public business is going into it.
-Benjamin Franklin
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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.
-Fredrich
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.
-Hugh Gaitskell
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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
-John Galsworthy
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.
-Charles De Gaulle
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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
-Charles De Gaulle
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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
-David Lloyd George
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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.
-Johann von Goethe
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Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
-Emma Goldman
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The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
-Emma Goldman
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Books about Politics
