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| I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether | | Lord Byron | |
| I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. | | Hubert H. Humphrey | |
| I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats. | | Ambrose Bierce | |
| I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. | | Adlai E. Stevenson | |
| If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. | | Alfred Korzybski | |
| If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate more deeply into the springs of human action | | Bertrand Russell | |
| If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be ‘identical with themselves’, the old dictum that ‘everything is identical with itself’ becomes in [today’s understanding of the universe] a principle invariably false to facts. | | Alfred Korzybski | |
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| If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain. | | Winston Churchill | |
| In my country we go to prison first and then become President. | | Nelson Mandela | |
| 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 | |
| In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible | | George Orwell | |
| In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. | | Charles de Gaulle | |
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| In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. | | Christian Nevell Bovee | |
| In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. | | H. G. Wells | |
| In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
