Politics Quotes

If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

The liberal people are the violent people in this country. The Democrat Party are the violent people.

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.