Politics Quotes
To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.
Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.
We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.
Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission that's not bad politics, that's robbery.
I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.
No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.
Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.
The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.