A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. 

—Carl Sandburg

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.  In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. 

—Winston Churchill

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. 

—George Will

If God had been a liberal there wouldn’t have been Ten Commandments, there would have been Ten Suggestions.

—Malcolm Bradbury

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession.  I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. 

—Ronald Reagan

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.  The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. 

—Ambrose Bierce

If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal. 

—Emma Goldman

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. 

—Martin L. Gross

We’d all like to vote for the best man, but he’s never a candidate. 

—Kin Hubbard

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right. 

—H.L. Mencken

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. 

—Charles de Gaulle

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. 

—Ernest Benn

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.              —John Quinton