Democracy is not just about casting a vote, it’s about making your voice heard and your values counted.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet, for it represents the power of the people.

True politics is about the art of the possible, not the pursuit of the perfect.

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that benefit the next generation.

Politics must be more than just a battle of interests it should be a pursuit of justice.

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man if you want anything done, ask a woman. – Margaret Thatcher

A politician thinks about the next election a statesman, about the next generation.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Politics the skilled use of blunt objects.

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.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

Good politicians don’t need to believe in anything except what can get them elected.

The most terrifying words in the English language are I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

Political correctness is tyranny with a happy face.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

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

Elected officials shouldn’t get to choose who gets to choose elected officials.

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

Politics where you can be right or popular, but seldom both.

A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

To err is human to blame it on the other party, divine.

Politics is more difficult than physics.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.

Some leaders are born women.

Practical politics consists of ignoring facts.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

The great question in life is not what political party you belong to, but whether or not you belong to humanity.

Power without a nation’s confidence is nothing.

Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

Politics isn’t about big money or power games it’s about the improvement of people’s lives.

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Vote for the man who promises least he’ll be the least disappointing.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Politics is not a game. It’s an earnest business.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

They say that politics is the second oldest profession, and I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Politics a strife of interests masquerading as ideas.

Vote for the change you want to see.

Democracy is dialogue in action.

Every election is a new beginning.

Power is a dangerous game.

Policy before personality, always.

The voice of the people echoes.

Choose policy over politics.

Only the brave enter the arena.

United we stand in political storms.

Lobbyists whisper where voters shout.

Courage is the backbone of leadership.

Public service Not just a career.

Politics The art of possible change.

Votes count, but voices matter more.

Never underestimate a silent majority.

Truth in politics is revolutionary.

Make your vote your voice.

In politics, tomorrow is another fight.

Campaign slogans fade, records last.

Fairness in debate, fairness in law.

Leadership is action, not position.

Minority rights are democratic pillars.

Politics tests ideals against reality.

Compromise for progress, not for power.

Freedom blooms where opinions clash.

Political winds shift, stay grounded.

Apathy in voting breaks democracy.

Accountability the core of politics.

Every vote draws the future.

Power to the people, truly.

Real change starts with a vote.

Justice is a political obligation.

Decisions today frame tomorrow.

Politicians should serve, not rule.

Elections decide more than winners.

Your ballot is your biggest weapon.

Don’t just watch, participate!

Debate ideas, not identities.

Policy shapes nations, vote wisely.

Leaders mirror the society’s soul.

Every political action has a reaction.

The ballot is mightier than the noise.

Rights are won by being right.

Progress is the child of action.

Respect in politics is earned, not given.

Unity is politics at its best.

Dissent is a democratic duty.

Politics without principle, a hollow game.

Tyranny begins where reason ends.

Freedom speaks through the ballot.

True power listens before it speaks.

Change is a vote away.

Politics is war without bloodshed.

Political storms test the ship of state.

Vote as if your life depends on it.

Liberty thrives on political engagement.

In power, remember those without it.

Silence is political surrender.

Corruption is a leak in democracy.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Politics have no relation to morals.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.

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

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.