Politics

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.  ~Plato


An election is coming.  Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.  ~George Eliot, Felix Holt, Chapter 5  (Thanks Julie!)


We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.  ~Stewart Udall



Don't vote, it only encourages them.  ~Author Unknown




I offer my opponents a bargain:  if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.  ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952



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

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.  ~Gore Vidal


The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.  ~Maureen Murphy


I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.  ~Charles de Gaulle


The problem with political jokes is they get elected.  ~Henry Cate, VII



Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession.  I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.  ~Ronald Reagan


Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.  The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.  ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary,1911

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.  ~Aesop


Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.  ~Thomas Jefferson


Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.  ~John Stuard Mill

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.  ~James Freeman Clarke, Sermon