Politics Quotes

Ernest Ransom: These are not the best if times...as your editorials remind us A.A. Hayes : Why not get a Democrat back in there? Ernest Ransom: These are not the worst of times eithers Dingley Falls

I think I have done well, though I am abandoned, with the curse of Cain upon me.

Senator John Stennis:The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American.

Senior Republicans certainly expected the president to come clean over Miss Lewinsky.

We are living in a world where moral climates have no atmosphere.

Politicians sre the same all over.They promise to build bridges, even where there are no rivers.

How can you have a war on terrorism while war itself is terrorism!

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.

The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.

...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.

Our freedom of mobility has helped keep this nation free. We are eagles, not herds of cattle. Eagles are much harder to corral with fences.

If politics left out the manipulation of money, I would perhaps view it more than a partisan traffic jam that never ends.

As politicians know all too well, even a Government that does not represent the wishes of a people can count on their support once the nation is locked in conflict with an external foe.

The problem with that analysis is that it is incorrect.

All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another.

It's all rather political, mourning is.

The difference between Opinion and News is the adjectives used.

Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself – (belching corruption and farting discontent!)

All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it.

The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich.

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.

Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.

the path of politics should be cleared with the sword of the constitution

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)

There are two political truisms: Old people vote and Republicans eat their young.

Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]

Either that information was not believed or inexplicably never passed on to the regional military command. When the attack finally came, Vienamese civilians were defenseless.

People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.

As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson

A safe army is better than a safe border

And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.

Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.

It takes a pillage.

It's like a drug, the feeling you could make a difference....

The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".

The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats...

Independence has made us Soft

The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.

[O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn’t much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate’s mood.

The only real recourse that [Russian] people had against tsarist rule was violence and rebellion. It was once remarked that Russia's constitution was "absolutism moderated by assassination.

Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.

Clarification is not to clarify things. It is to put one’s self in the clear (Sir Humphrey Appleby)

We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it.

Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election.

Beware of affect adorning vêtement of effect.

It appears that no one is so unfortunate that he or she is exempt from spending cuts, while at the same time no one is so fortunate as to be ineligible for a tax cut

collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.