“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.” MenMadeRealPoliticalPoliticsAttentionIssuesEmotionalInvolvedCampaignsEndeavorMusterPolitical Campaign Author:James Harvey Robinson
“Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.” PoliticalKingsRaisesRuinsPlotCommonwealthRaise UpTrue Or FalseNecessary Things Author:John Dryden
“Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.” ArtPoliticalTurnsModernPleaseGoldEasePossessedReverseStatesmenMidas Author:John Wolcot
“If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.” IfsWorldFirstsRunningPoliticalHalfProjectsElectionSeriesWinnerOne HalfWorld SeriesElection Day Author:Lindsey Nelson
“The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.” MenUsePoliticalPoliticsQuality Author:Lyman Bryson
“I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.” PoliticalPoliticsOughtRighteousLeftists Author:Moses Coady
“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.” IfsYearsFirstsMadePoliticalMotherPoliticsGoneRecordsPoliticianTerribleSixMurderPressesResponseStatementsThings To DoOpponentsTerrible Things Author:Meg Greenfield
“A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.” HumansPoliticalPoliticsHuman NatureConventionsWhere You Come Author:Murray Kempton
“The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.” EndsPoliticalWinningGoalElection Author:Paul Krugman
“Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.” DoePoliticalOpponentsCandidatesContrast Author:Richard Turner