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| Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~ Richard Armour |
| Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. ~ Author Unknown |
| Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. ~ W.C. Fields |
| We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ~ Martin L. Gross, |
| There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville |
| We’d all like to vote for the best man, but he’s never a candidate. ~ Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard |
| All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. ~ Albert Einstein |
| Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right. ~ H.L. Mencken |
| What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? ~ Abraham Lincoln |
| I think it’s about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long enough. ~ Clarie Sargent |
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| A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ~ Leonard Bernstein |
| Take our politicians: they’re a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. ~ Saul Bellow |
| In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. ~ Charles de Gaulle |
| Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~ Plato |
| Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where they is no river. ~ Nikita Khrushchev |
| Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ~ William E. Gladstone |
| When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it. ~ Clarence Darrow |
| George Washington is the only president who didn’t blame the previous administration for his troubles. ~ Author Unknown |
| Truth is not determined by majority vote. ~ Doug Gwyn |
| An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ~ George Eliot, |
| 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 |
| We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ~ Stewart Udall |
| The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith |
| A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~ John Quinton |
| A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead. ~ Leo Rosten |
| The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it. ~ P.J. O’Rourke |
| Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. ~ Ambrose Bierce, |
| A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ~ Alfred E. Wiggam |
| Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don’t know what they are conserving. ~ Robertson Davies |