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