“Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.”
Henri Queuille

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
Abraham Lincoln

“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”
Abraham Lincoln

“At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.”
Aldous Huxley

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
Anais Nin

“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”
Barack Obama

“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
Blaise Pascal

“The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They’re the kind of people who’d stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn’t bother to stop because they’d want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club.”
Dave Barry

“An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“In our age there is no such thing as “keeping out of politics.” All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”
George Orwell

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
Groucho Marx

“In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.”
H.G. Wells

“A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.”
H.L. Mencken

“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”
John F. Kennedy

“Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn’t grow up can be vice president.”
Johnny Carson

“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.”
Nikita Krushchev

“A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.”
Will Rogers

“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
Oscar Wilde