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222 Quotes About Politics - Some Cynical, Some Hopeful, All On Point

Welcome to our curated collection of quotes on politics. These are about politics in general - not any particular political party. Many are cynical, and that seems to be the prevailing view of politics. Some are much more hopeful. And some just thoughtful. We hope you enjoy pondering them, and if you find them helpful, please share widely.

--Alfred Newman

--Joseph Cannon

--Kim Beazley

--Henry M. Jackson

--Paul Lazarsfeld

--Henri Queuille

--Sidney Hillman

--Howard Crosby

--Joe McGinniss

--Claiborne Pell

--Abraham Miller

--Abraham Miller

--August Wilson

--Aung San Suu Kyi

--Austin O'Malley

--Carl von Clausewitz

--Charles de Gaulle

--Charles de Gaulle

--David Lloyd George

--David Miliband

--Elizabeth Esty

--Frank Herbert

--George MacDonald

--George F. Will

--Henry Brooks Adams

Longer Version:

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.

--Henry Brooks Adams

Longer Version:

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.

--Henry Brooks Adams

--Hubert Humphrey

--Jesse Jackson

--Jim Hightower

--John Kenneth Galbraith

--John Kenneth Galbraith

--John Kenneth Galbraith

--Jonathan Swift

--Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

--Kinky Friedman

--Otto von Bismarck

--Otto von Bismarck

--Otto von Bismarck

--P.J. O'Rourke

--P.J. O'Rourke

--P.J. O'Rourke

--P.J. O'Rourke

--P.J. O'Rourke

--Reinhold Niebuhr

--Richard Armour

--Sidney Sheldon

--Thomas Huxley

--Youssou N'Dour

--Zygmunt Bauman

--Kerry Washington

--Stewart Udall

--David Blunkett

--David Blunkett

--Aneurin Bevan

--A. J. Liebling

--Burton Richter

--Brian J. White

--Cate Blanchett

--Charles Kennedy

--Charles Kennedy

--Caroline Kennedy

--Charles Dance

--Charles Edison

--Emmanuel Macron

--Daniel J. Boorstin

--Eliot Spitzer

--Eliot Spitzer

--Elliott Abrams

--Eleanor Clift

--Eleanor Clift

--Fareed Zakaria

--Francis Parker Yockey

--Francis Parker Yockey

--Honeysuckle Weeks

--Howard Fineman

--Israel Horovitz

--Jerry Falwell, Jr.

--John Jay Chapman

--Jeff Greenfield

--Jimmy Durante

--James P. Cannon

--Lester B. Pearson

--Lawrence Summers

--Lewis H. Lapham

--Ken Livingstone

--Konrad Adenauer

--Mark McKinnon

--Mark McKinnon

--Maurice Saatchi

--Megyn Kelly

--Mike Huckabee

--Martin Shkreli

--Miriam Defensor-Santiago

--Matthew Green

--Meg Greenfield

--Nicolle Wallace

--Paddy Ashdown

--Richard Stallman

--Richard J. Daley

--Riteish Deshmukh

--Sargent Shriver

--Terry McAuliffe

--Sergei Lavrov

--Stone Gossard

--Sydney Pollack

--Tadashi Yanai

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