Politics - Select Quotes

Let us never sacrifice our principles for anybody’s politics - not now, not ever.
~ Mike Huckabee

If you truly wished to find out what is best for the country you would listen more to those who oppose you than those who try to please you.
~ Isocrates

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself.
~ Mark Twain

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
~ H. L. Mencken

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enought to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.
~ Eugene McCarthy

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
~ Abraham Lincoln

We learned once and for all that compromise makes a good umbrella but a por roof; that it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
~ James Russell Lowell

He brings disaster upon is nation who never sows a seed, or lays a brick, or weaves a garment, but makes politics his occupation.
~ Kahlil Gibran

All politics is local.
~ Tip O’Neill