Politics Quotes

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." "Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness" "In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile" "Politics is the art of controlling your environment" "The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs" "There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others." "To some degree, it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public." "We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security" "All plans of government which suppose great reformation in the manners of mankind are plainly imaginary" "In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of politics" "It's not that I'm liberal. It's that this country isn't as conservative as it's being portrayed" "11th commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Democrat" "Every step we take towards making the state the caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the state our master." "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation" "An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere"