Quotes about politics

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Research is one of the nation’s very greatest resources and the role of the federal government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.

Theodore Roosevelt

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

Samuel Johnson

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

Woodrow Wilson

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Plato

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government.

Donald Trump

Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera’s wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.

Swami Vivekananda

We have just carried an election on principles fairly stated to the people. Now we are told in advance, the government shall be broken up, unless we surrender to those we have beaten, before we take the offices.

Abraham Lincoln

The money we spend on government. And it’s not a bit better government than we got for one-thirds the money two years ago.

Will Rogers