Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all of the time. But the Republicans haven't given up trying.

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

Party divisions, whether on the whole operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free government.

I have the disease called politics.

All politics is a combination of rhetoric and reality.

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're going to get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Truth is not the first casualty of war alone: it is the first casualty of populism.

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated!

We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.

The best defense against democracy is to distract people.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

No political cliche can stand up to reality.

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable to the opponent.... The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

The delusion of the people is necessary to the dominant party. I see the extent to which that delusion has been already carried, and I see there is no length to which it may not be pushed by a party in possession of the revenues and the legal authorities of the United States