Political Death Quotes

First of all, let me just say what's interesting about American politics is that if things really get bad here, people say nasty things about you. From a global perspective, if politics get bad, you die, so let's just keep some perspective here.

The Labor Party is a body that does not seek political life, and does not fight for its life.

It’s a graveyard for politics. I see this as the end of my political future

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

Mexico is to us the forbidden fruit; the penalty of eating it would be to subject our institutions to political death.

A man, and yet not a man. In flesh and blood alive; politically dead.” …. They are not slaves, but they are not, in a political sense, ‘persons’.

The Democratic Party is DEAD.

The French Socialist Party is not merely dying, but it is already dead.

In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.