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| A leader has to lead, or otherwise he has no business in politics. | | Harry S Truman | |
| A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. | | Harry S Truman | |
| A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. | | John Stuart Mill | |
| A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. | | David Lloyd George | |
| A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections. | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. | | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence. | | Otto von Bismarck | |
| ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record. | | Ambrose Bierce | |
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| Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. | | Eugene J. McCarthy | |
| Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. | | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. | | John Stuart Mill | |
| Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. | | Aristotle | |
| Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. | | Laurence J. Peter | |
| Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. | | Robert Byrne | |
| Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. | | Oscar Wilde | |
