Political Flux Quotes

In politics the future is never a straight line projection of the present.

Politics is a like physics. Whatever goes up has to come down a little bit.

Nothing in American politics is forever.

Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.

[Thomas] Jefferson understood a timeless truth, that politics is kaleidoscopic, constantly shifting, and the morning’s foe may well be the afternoon’s friend.

That's politics. Your friend one day is your enemy the next and vice versa.

Governments come and go, but civilizations linger on.

Parties are continually changing. The men of today give place to the men of tomorrow, and the idols which one set worship, the next destroy.

By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.

In politics, you're like a toilet seat: you're up one day and down the next.

The boundaries of political units are never ... stationary—they must either expand or shrink.

The only thing that's consistent in politics is change.