Political Downfall Quotes

A hated government does not last long.

The shortest way to ruin a country is to give power to demogogues.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Dictators always look good until the last ten minutes.

Entering politics is a fate worse than death.

It irritates me that that silly little man should destroy a great monarchy by giggling into a flirtation with a third-rate American.

Reveal Richard Nixon … lay him and his motives bare … destroy him in his shot for the Presidency.

Since the time of Richard Nixon, there has been a strange lack of will in the media to identify the real cause for Americans' anger at politicians who fall, publicly and spectacularly.

Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.

After my defeat I no longer existed for Hitler. My name simply disappeared from the newspapers.

Had matters gone as planned—and the [Watergate] tapes trickled out posthumously—[Richard] Nixon would have managed the extraordinary feat of committing suicide after his own death.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Donald Trump is toast.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

This election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.

McCarthy was destroyed. He was of course sabotaged from within his own staff. The aliens who control our press and radio and the boob tubes spattered their slime over the country.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

Trump doesn't know it yet, but he will become one of the guys that he hates very soon. Soon he will be a loser.

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

The Republican brand is in the trash can. If we were dog food, they would take us off the shelf.

Like one of [Donald] Trump's sons said this is a huge step down for him to run for president. Like he's not doing it - let's just be clear.