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At the end of the day, political quotes by these famous people hit the nail on the head when it comes to addressing political issues.
There are political quotes from Harry S. Truman, George Will, Grover Cleveland, and more.
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
-George Will
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
-George Will
I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.
-Gerhard Schroeder
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
-Gertrude Stein
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
-Gore Vidal
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
-Gore Vidal
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
-Gore Vidal
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
-Grover Cleveland
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-Grover Cleveland
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-H. L. Mencken
In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
-H. L. Mencken
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party, he is a leader.
-Harry S. Truman
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
-Harry S. Truman
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
-Harry S. Truman
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
-Henry A. Kissinger
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
-Henry B. Adams
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It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
-Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
-Herbert Hoover
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
-Hyman Rickover
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
-Imelda Marcos
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 Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
- P. J. O'Rourke
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
-P. J. O'Rourke
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
-Paddy Chayefsky
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
-Plato
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just, and humane society.
-Pope John Paul II
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
-R. Buckminster Fuller
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
-R. Buckminster Fuller
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
-Ralph Nader
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
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
-Robert Kennedy
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
-Robert Orben
The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
-Robert Reich
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
-Robertson Davies
I found these political quotes to be interesting and stimulating because every one of them reflects an individual thought-provoking perspective.
Thank you for taking the time to look over these political quotes.
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