Politics Quotes

...this is how politics is played. With fakery and false smiles and butcher knives to the back.

Their courtship unfolded in two settings, a Russian reality overlaid with New York memories

Florence imagined the Hammer and Sickle metallurgical plant to be an enormous brick factory like the ones in New York. But as she approached she saw it was in fact a small city of its own

A Red Riding Hood out of her depths in the woods of socialism

She was arriving at a revelation that the secret to living was simply forgetting

An independent newspaper? It is a newspaper that looks nothing like a newspaper.

Misfortune never comes singly. It's surrounded by bodyguards.

Each thinking mind is a political mind

One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dubious character.

From the day to till the day there are two humans living together they were and they will be involves in political process.

Every political mean is imperfect.

Integrity must become a personal goal of a growing majority in America if we want to be a major world influence.

If you have to stretch that far to reach the justification you want, then perhaps you’re standing upon the wrong pedestal.

Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.

It's easy for common people to say what they think about the government. No one listens to them.

Armour belonging to someone else either chops off you or weighs you down or is too tight

Fundamentalism of any kind, be it religious, atheistic, political or educational, is the greatest threat to human excellence – it is a threat to progress – it is a threat to greatness.

Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.

Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse.

Social Security is neither social, nor secure.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."-Jimi Hendrix

If you lay with a scorpion, don't be surprised when it finally stings you.

Then Brezhnev grabbed the wheel of power and captained the country with the exploratory heart of a municipal bus driver.

Tears streamed down her wrinkled face. This world that she had longed to change for the better was as bad as the one into which she had been born. "An exercise in futility, " she murmured.

Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.

The future shouldn't be female or male---but one of women and men working together. That's the real definition of equality.

In nepotism, when a doctor is appointed to do the job of an engineer, and an engineer is appointed to do the job of a lawyer, you know there’s bound to be failure in the system

Politics nowadays is a game unlike every other game, only for the willing hearts and strong minds

Having the understanding of God, God’s ambassadors are able to bring a country out of crisis, change politics, business and economy

He that walks into the political marsh cannot come out with polished boots.

If the caged birds think whoever scattering grains for them that person is their deity, what should we Kurds call the person who will grantee us an independence.

Iraq is a fabricated state that has failed. It has always been a failure. It exists on the map. On the map, it has some borders, but these borders weren’t drawn naturally.

But our land is still troubled by men who have to hate. They twist away our freedom, and they twist away our fate. Fear is their weapon, and treason is their cry. We can stop them if we try.

The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred,

I can only imagine that future generations will consider us to have been barbaric for our intolerance of differences.

The goal of radicalism is to improve the human condition, not to prove one's own moral superiority.

Resistance is NOT futile.

...the opportunity for overthrowing capitalism has passed – Labor governments are the hope of the world.” From that time his commitment to the ALP was unquestioned.

The great political problem in our modern democracy is how to induce our leaders to lead.

I'm beginning to wonder when the Doomsday Clock will be reset to five minutes before 1939?

We are not against the evil when our enemies are.

There is an understandable aversion to risk, and a reluctance to plan too far ahead: the modern electorate wants instant gratification and simplistic, populist solutions.

Reminded that the Commonwealth was already involved in pre-school and university education, Chifley replied: “That’s different – they’re for kids before they’ve got souls and after they’ve lost them.

Bigotry against any group should be disqualifying for high office.

— Why did blondes vote for Clinton? — They didn't know how to read and thought she can make their life hilarious!

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

In video games, one of the most helpless against injustice can even mighty.

Far too many Americans formulate their own personal expert opinions based on the Golden Rule and the Eight-second Soundbyte.

The commandment was to ‘Love thy neighbor, ’ not ‘Love thy government.

One part braggart to one part coward. He would fear everyone he did not control. And the next day he would fear those he controlled even more.