Political Quotes

Political Quote of the day

The time is always right to do the right thing.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are.

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle, the billionaires may have the money, but we have the people.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

Never wound a snake; kill it.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world.

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.

Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.

A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a result ... what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.

I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.

Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and inimical to the progress of humanity.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.