The fact that a reactionary can sometimes be right is a little less recognized that the fact that a liberal can be. . . . (Quote by - Joseph Gies)

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. (Quote by - Leo Rosten)

It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)

He's like a football coach who's smart enough to win the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. (Quote by - Eugene McCarthy)

Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle. (Quote by - Ely Culbertson)

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. (Quote by - Saul Bellow)

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means. (Quote by - Karl Von Clausewitz)

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. (Quote by - Robert Byrne)

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. (Quote by - John Gardner)

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere. (Quote by - Hermione Gingold)

We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked. (Quote by - Dean Rusk)

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. (Quote by - Mikhail A Bakunin)

Politics is not a good location or a vocation for anyone lazy, thin-skinned or lacking a sense of humour. (Quote by - John Bailey)

Truth is not determined by majority vote. (Quote by - Doug Gwyn)

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. (Quote by - Walter Landor)

I was actually smiling, talking to one of my colleagues about my new baby... It was nothing to do with politics [on grinning in his car] (Quote by - Gordon Brown)

This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics. (Quote by - Nellie McClung)

Crime does not pay as well as politics. (Quote by - Alfred E Newman)

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election. (Quote by - Will Rogers)

A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote; A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat; So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is (Quote by - I could be just as proud for half the money. (Quote by - Arthur Godfrey)