The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. - Alexis de Tocqueville

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

• Alasdair MacIntyre

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. -- Aneurin Bevan

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.
-- Anais Nin

"We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics ..."
-- Anais Nin

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
-- Aneurin Bevan

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. - A. J. Liebling

The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they are influencing events. That's why they hate politicians so much, because politicians have direct power and they do not. -- Ben Aaronovitch

Party is organized opinion.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
-- Benjamin Franklin

The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.
-- Bernard Crick

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
-- Bernard Crick

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
-- Bernard Crick

Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.
-- Bernard Crick

To feed ten mouths, she had to call on Mr. Welfare.
-- Big Daddy Kane

Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.
-- Bob Dylan

Everybody wants to see justice done... to somebody else. -- Bruce Cockburn

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.
-- Carl von Clausewitz

Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.
-- Charles Krauthammer

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal. -- Charlotte Bunch

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. - Christian Nestell Bovee

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
-- Confucius

California is no longer a state, it's a hedge fund.
-- Craig T. Nelson

One of the biggest differences between liberalism and conservativism these days, is that conservativism isn't what conservativism should be, and liberalism is what liberalism ought not to be. -- Derek R. Audette

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?
-- Don Feder

There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.
-- Don Henley

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
-- Edward Albee

We can't have these great corporations crowding competition off the sidewalks. It's like an elephant saying, "Everyone for himself," as he dances among the chickens.
-- Emanuel Celler

Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
-- Erica Jong

It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.
-- Erick Erickson

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
-- Eugene McCarthy

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected. -- Everett Dirksen

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him
-- Fiorello H. La Guardia

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.-- Florence Ellinwood Allen

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.
-- George Orwell

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
-- George Orwell

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
-- George V. Higgins

It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it. -- George Washington

"To err is human; to blame it on the other guy is even more human."
— Bob Goddard, US physicist, rocketry pioneer (1882-1945)

"To err is human. To blame someone else is politics."
Hubert H. Humphrey

George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles. ~Author Unknown

All isms end in fascism.
-- Gilbert Adair