Political Quotes

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

Would that the Roman people had but one neck!

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Sanitation should not be seen as a political tool, but should only be connected to patriotism (rashtrabhakti) and commitment to public health.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.

Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

In bygone days, commanders were taught that when in doubt, they should march their troops towards the sound of gunfire. I intend to march my troops towards the sound of gunfire.

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.

Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party.

The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back