Life is the sum of all your choices.
Albert Camus

Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle

Indecision becomes decision with time.
Author Unknown

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Abraham Lincoln

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends… that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai Stevenson

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

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
Flora Whittemore

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin

I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Ann Richards

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
Arthur Schlesinger

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
Benjamin Whichcote

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
Bill Moyers

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Blaise Pascal

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
Carl Sandberg

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
Rita Mae Brown

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
Carl Sandburg

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
Rita Mae Brown

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
Rita Mae Brown

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.
William James

Choices are the hinges of destiny.
Edwin Markham and Pythagoras

It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Roy Disney

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.
William James

In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
T.S. Eliot

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.
Author Unknown

Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.
Ambrose Bierce

The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience.
Author Unknown

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
Denis Waitley

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidentially expect utopia. Both are wrong.
Carolyn Heilbrun

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
David Broder

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.
Demosthenes

Politics are not the task of a Christian.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.
Edward Dowling

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor Roosevelt

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Freda Adler

Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it’s the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Some men see things as they are and say, “Why?” I dream of things that never were and say, “Why not?”
George Bernard Shaw

Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
George Burns

Although he’s regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.
George J. Mitchell

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles.
George Wilhelm Hegel

You really don’t want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
Goethe

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

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. Wells

A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. Mencken

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.
Jeff Greenfield

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
Jesse Jackson

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
Jim Hightower

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Jimmy Carter

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
Marian Wright Edelman

Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
Mark Twain

Citizenship is what makes a republic — monarchies can get along without it.
Mark Twain

No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.
Mark Twain

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
Michael Harrington

The Roots of Violence:
Wealth without work,
Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character,
Commerce without morality,
Science without humanity,
Worship without sacrifice,
Politics without principles.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mohandas Gandhi

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
Molly Ivins

Good thing we’ve still got politics in Texas — finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
Molly Ivins

Oh, it’s just that your life is at stake.
Molly Ivins

You can’t ignore politics, no matter how much you’d like to.
Molly Ivins

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
Noam Chomsky

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
Oscar Levant

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
Otto Van Bismarck

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
Paul Wellstone

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren’t for the goddamned people.
Richard M. Nixon

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Robert Frost

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.
Saul Alinsky

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.
Sinclair Lewis

A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation.
Thomas Jefferson

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
Wendell Phillips

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke
Will Rogers

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
Will Rogers

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Winston Churchill