Quotations on Politics
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
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-Mark B. Cohen
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
-Clarence Darrow
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
-Edward Langley
Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-Bill Stern
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
-Pat Paulsen
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
-Seth MacFarlane
If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.
-Claude Pepper
My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
-Carl Schurz
The limits of tyrants is prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
-Frederick Douglass
We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.
-Carl Schurz

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