Political Quotes

I'll have more to say regarding issues by the end of September. In the mean time, here's some of my favorite quotes related to politics (enjoy, though some kind of sting):

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

Robert Byrne

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. Hyman Rickover

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle

In politics the middle way is none at all.
John Adams

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
George MacDonald

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry A. Kissinger

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Ross Perot

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.
P. J. O'Rourke

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Adlai E. Stevenson

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart Udall

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O'Rourke

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
Paul Harvey

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
Cullen Hightower

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
Chris Rock

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost

It's not how you can use power for position, but rather how you can serve others to better their position
Jim Hardin