Politics Quotes

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.

Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

Be grateful for blessings, Don't ever change, keep your essence. The power is in the people and politics we address.

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

To get rich is glorious.

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

I believe that nothing has been more wholesome for America, for our government, for our politics, than the increased participation of women.

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

Great men are never cruel without necessity.

Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition.

Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

The flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.

Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.