If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress? – Author Unknown
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. – Gore Vidal
Truth is not determined by majority vote. – Doug Gwyn
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. – Charles Krauthammer
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until… lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power… become lovers of wisdom. – Plato, The Republic
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, 1956
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. – Charles de Gaulle
We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in. – Will Rogers
Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life. – Elmer Davis
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is… the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. – Adlai Stevenson, speech, Democratic National Convention, 18 August 1956
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. – Alexis de Tocqueville
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. – Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. – Stewart Udall
Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. – James Harvey Robinson, The Human Comedy, 1937
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. – John Gardner
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. – James Freeman Clarke, Sermon
During a campaign the air is full of speeches – and vice versa. – Author Unknown
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. – Meg Greenfield
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill
