I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law. (Quote by - Fisher Ames)

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues. (Quote by - George Orwell)

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

There are no true friends in politics. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)

History is gossip but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology (Quote by - Daniel Yergin)

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. (Quote by - Robertson Davies)

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)

As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative? (Quote by - Lord Trent)

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)

In politics stupidity is not a handicap. (Quote by - Napoleon I. Bonaparte)

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Quote by - General Dwight David Eisenhower)

Politics is war without bloodshed, and war is politics with blood. (Quote by - Mao Tse-Tung)

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. (Quote by - George Will)

Politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why. (Quote by - Sidney Hillman)

The word politics is derived from the word poly, meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. (Quote by - Larry Hardiman)

A politican is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. (Quote by - Anonymous)

A conservative is a Democrat who's been mugged. I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it? (Quote by - Vat Paulsen)

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. (Quote by - Henry Adams)

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. (Quote by - John Caldwell Calhoun)

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr)

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. (Quote by - Clare Boothe Luce)