Kutipan (Quote) - Politics (2)

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Jimmy Carter

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. Fields

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil Gibran

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
John F. Kennedy

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis D. Brandeis

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S. Truman

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
Harry S. Truman

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry A. Kissinger

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold H. Glasow

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
Carter Glass

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
William Tecumseh Sherman

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O'Rourke

In politics the middle way is none at all.
John Adams

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Leo Rosten

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Robert Byrne

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
Lewis Black

In politics nothing is contemptible.
Benjamin Disraeli

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Warren G. Harding