Politics Quotes

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

The Democratic Party supports criminals and Islamic terrorists but has no sympathy for taxpayers.

Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

POW 369, I should salute you from this heart of mine. And thank you for placing your life on the line.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.

I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

Never judge a country by its politicians.

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Dare! - this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.

Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.

Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.