Politics Quotes

Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake.

One can be deeply influenced by people to whom one is utterly hostile

The theory was simple: If a man had enough sense to accumulate a bunch of cash, then he would certainly make a worthy U.S senator.

I had no vote in the making of such a law, and I have no intention of abiding by it, either.

Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.

…there is not a day of my life that I am not critiquing myself to see if my politics are borne out in the way that I live and the way that I talk and present myself.

A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.

He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.

If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule.

Whatever we may think of the merits of torturing children for pleasure, and no doubt there is much to be said on both sides, I am sure we all agree that it should be done with sterilized instruments.

The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty.

Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.

With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.

It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.

Leaders say "no" to corruption. Anyone playing a role in governance, and is not ready to do this is not a leader.

Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society.

Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves.

We're all in this together.

Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opportunity would have arisen in vain.

International Relations are too important to be left to the specialists.

We cannot move forward if we allow the past to pull us back.

My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socia

You can call anyone you want a traitor as long as you're the one holding the pen.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity.

Money is a servant to politicians and the country.But, if the politicians and the country become the servant of the money, the politicians has failed.

People believe what they are told.

If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics

No system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse

In America, disagreement with the policies of the government does not necessitate a lack of patriotism!

If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.

Kadafi is a zombie in a pillbox hat, that's what he is!

Great leaders passed away, politicians made their way.

a kind of emptiness existed in the center of my bagel

It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.

I didn't change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.

What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father's arms Where is the equivalence

Republicans have succeeded with a social agenda that gets people to vote against their own interests while the Democrats are so elitist that they can't tap into the anger that's real.

People who write about politics, whether on the left or the right, have a consistent bias: they take politics seriously.

If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed

Mary wasn't brilliant.She was a good woman who let her emotions guide her politics. She just couldn't help being for anybody who was agin something.

That is the corrosive paradox of gender feminism's misandrist stance: no group of women can wage war on men without at the same time denigrating the women who respect those men.

[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires

People Power is too often an inverted fairy story - the triumph of innocence coming at the start and the Ugly Sisters of intrigue and ambition coming on stage in triumph for the final curtain.

It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.

I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for the Fatherland'.

Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.

There are many who think a wise prince ought, when he has the chance, to foment astutely some enmity, so that by suppressing it he will augment his greatness.