Politics Quotes

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines.

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.