The Best Politics Quotes – Part 1

April 24th, 2013 6:06 am by Dr John

1. The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poli’, a Latin word meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘tiks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites/creatures’ – Larry Hardiman / Robin P. Williams

2. A fool and his money are soon elected – Will Rogers

3. Politics have no relation to morals – Niccolo Machiavelli

4. My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right – Abraham Lincoln

5. Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you ― Dennis E. Adonis

6. Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them – Barry Goldwater

7. I am a politician which means I am a cheater, a liar and a crook. When I am not busy kissing babies, I am stealing their lollypops – Tom Clancy, Red October

8. Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career
– Peter Prange

9. Kill all the prisoners, because they’re costing us too much money. Wait! No, kill all the politicians, because they’re spending too much money – Jarod Kintz

10. Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They both should be changed frequently and all for the same reason – José Maria de Eça de Queiroz

11. I want to have five or six wives, and a few dozen sheep, all for my pleasure. I should be a politician – Jarod Kintz

12. The only way to reform a politician is to hang him – Abraham Miller

13. To err is human. To blame someone else is politics – Hubert H. Humphrey

14. It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind – Mike Norton

15. Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country – John F. Kennedy

16. Politics is all about showing you have integrity—and hiding the fact that you really don’t have any – Jarod Kintz

17. Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives – Gary Gutting

18. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy – Ernest Benn

19. Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed – Mao Tse-Tung

20. Every politician has a promising career. Unfortunately, most of them do not keep those promises – Jarod Kintz