Politics Quotes

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!

We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.