Quotes and sayings about Politics

"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular"

"Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity"

"Corruption is the nightmare that keeps democracy a dream"

"Man is by nature a political animal"

"In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people."

"An age is called dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it"

"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation, one is by the sword the other is by the debt"

"The people who vote decide nothing. The people who count the vote decide everything"

"The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another negotiation"

"Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen"

"Government is the only institution that can take a perfectly good piece of paper, print some noble words on it, and make it perfectly worthless"

"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right."

"The ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas"

"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary"

"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government"

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty"

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil"

"Plurality should not be assumed without necessity"