Harry S. Truman Quotes About Politics
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Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.
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If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.
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Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.
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A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
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Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.
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If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
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[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
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The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
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It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
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A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
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Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
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It sure is hell to be president.
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The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.
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A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.
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All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
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When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
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Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.
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The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.
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I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
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You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.
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Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
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Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
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To me party platforms are contracts with the people.
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A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
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A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
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Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.
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I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.
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This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.
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