An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON POLITICS 4
The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.
Anthony Sampson
If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
William T. Sherman (1820-1891, American army commander)
The politician is like an acrobat: He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German philosopher)
The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
A politician is one that would circumvent God.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Prime Minister (1979-90))
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Prime Minister (1979-90))
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Lily Tomlin (1939-, American comedienne)
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965, American lawyer, politician)
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965, American lawyer, politician)
We mean by "politics" the people's business -- the most important business there is.
Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965, American lawyer, politician)
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)
In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)
Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.
William Howard Taft (1857-1930, American President (27th))
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-1859, French social philosopher)
I learned very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is; What is the Alternative?
Lord Trent
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940, Russian revolutionary)
When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972, American President (33rd))
Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972, American President (33rd))
Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating.
Boss Tweed
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and doctors. I don't believe it. They are simply the people we are most afraid of. And with the most reason.
Author Unknown
Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.
Author Unknown
Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.
Author Unknown
Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.
Author Unknown
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Author Unknown
The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.
Author Unknown
To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.
Author Unknown
Until you've been in politics, you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups, all other games are for kids.
Author Unknown
He speaks to Me as if I were a public meeting.
Queen Victoria (1819-1901, British queen)
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-, American novelist)
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
George F. Will (1941-, American political columnist)
People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.
Michio Watanabe
It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.
Auberon Waugh
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
Max Weber (1864-1920, German sociologist)
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say "In spite of all!" has the calling for politics.
Max Weber (1864-1920, German sociologist)
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
Orson Welles (1915-1985, American film maker)
A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
Elwyn Brooks White (1899-1985, American author, editor)
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
George F. Will (1941-, American political columnist)
All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are "up to a point."
George F. Will (1941-, American political columnist)
This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
Harold Wilson (1916-1995, British statesman, Prime Minister)
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924, American President (28th))
The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.
Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924, American President (28th))
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