Political Quotes

Here are a variety of quotes that relate to politics and politicians. Many were found on the website www.quotationspage.com and the Friars Club Encyclopedia of Jokes:

"America has the best politicians money can buy."
Will Rogers

"One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors."
Plato

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
Benjamin Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence

“Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.”
Alfred E. Newman

“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 is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies”
Groucho Marx

“Under every stone lurks a politician.”
Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC)

“State legislators are merely politicians whose darkest secret prohibits them from running for higher office.”
Dennis Miller

“An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.”
~Simon Cameron (1799 - 1889)

“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.”
~Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)

“Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice Doggie” until you can find a rock.”
~Will Rogers

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

“Man is by nature a political animal.”
~Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

“All of the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of Native Americans.”
~Pat Paulson

“How many politicians does it take to change a light bulb? None. They’ll only promise change.”
~Anonymous

“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
~Mark Twain

“Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.”
~Henry Kissinger

“Political speeches are like a steer. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in-between.”
Anonymous

“Voting in this election is like trying to decide which street mime to stop and watch.”
~A. Whitney Brown

“The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.”
~Will Rogers

“What’s the difference between baseball and politics? In baseball you’re out if you’re caught stealing.”
~Anonymous

"Congress is so strange... a man gets up to speak and says nothing... nobody listens... and then everybody disagrees. Then they vote on it.”
~Will Rogers

“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it’s important.”
~ Anonymous