Here, political industry veteran Dan Centinello shares some inspiring, funny and surprising quotes about politics from well-known people (not just Washington insiders).

1. POLITICAL QUOTES
1 0 A M A Z I N G
By: Dan Centinello

2. --Mark Twain
“ L O Y A L T Y T O C O U N T R Y
A L W A Y S . L O Y A L T Y T O
G O V E R N M E N T , W H E N I T
D E S E R V E S I T . ”

3. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
“ T H E R E C O M E S A T I M E
W H E N O N E M U S T T A K E A
P O S I T I O N T H A T I S
N E I T H E R S A F E , N O R
P O L I T I C , N O R P O P U L A R ,
B U T H E M U S T T A K E I T
B E C A U S E C O N S C I E N C E
T E L L S H I M I T I S R I G H T . ”

4. “A PARANOID IS SOMEONE
WHO KNOWS A LITTLE OF
WHAT’S GOING ON. ”
C O M P A N Y . C O M
- - W I L L I A M S . B U R R O U G H S

5. “POLITICS IS THE ART OF LOOKING
FOR TROUBLE, FINDING IT
EVERYWHERE, DIAGNOSING IT
INCORRECTLY AND APPLYING THE
WRONG REMEDIES.”
- - G R O U C H O M A R X

6. --Napoléon Bonaparte
“IN
POLITICS,
STUPIDITY
IS NOT A
HANDICAP.”

7. “TOO BAD THAT ALL THE
PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO
RUN THE COUNTRY ARE BUSY
DRIVING TAXICABS AND
CUTTING HAIR.”
--George Burns
C O M P A N Y . C O M

8. “EVERY POLITICIAN SHOULD
HAVE BEEN BORN AN ORPHAN
AND REMAIN A BACHELOR.”
C O M P A N Y . C O M
- - L A D Y B I R D J O H N S O N

9. “RULE-FOLLOWING, LEGAL
PRECEDENCE, AND POLITICAL
CONSISTENCY ARE NOT MORE
IMPORTANT THAN RIGHT, JUSTICE
AND PLAIN COMMON-SENSE.”
- - W . E . B . D U B O I S

10. --Abraham Lincoln
"...The brave men, living
and dead, who struggled
here, have consecrated it far
above our poor power to
add or detract. The world
will little note, nor long
remember what we say
here, but it can never forget
what they did here..."

11. “AS YOU
PROBABLY
COULD HAVE
GUESSED BY THIS
MOMENT, I HAVE
DECIDED IN 2020
TO RUN FOR
PRESIDENT.”
--Kanye West