Political Purity Quotes

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

We have no parties or politicians, and as for demagoguery and corruption, they are words having only an historical significance…

Republicans have the habit of giving their possible presidential candidates a saliva test for purity, and then bitching for 4 years because they lost the last election..

Our modern politicians … claim that they are too practical to be pure and too patriotic to be moral.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

The AAP from the beginning made it clear that they were about changing policy and not being a symbol of purity in a corrupt world.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure.

I don't pass the Tea Party's purity test.

The anti-big-government movement is pure. Its participants represent something close to what used to be considered normative in this country.

With Richard Splett, he's like the only character on 'Veep' that has no angle. He's guileless. He also believes in the power of government.

Pure homes make pure governments.

You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.