Politics Quotes

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

All revolutions devour their own children.

We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections.

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is a form of brain damage.

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

I never got into politics for it to be a career.

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

Politics and football don't mix.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

I think the big problem is you have a vicious cycle of wealth and power in America that's just gotten completely out of control and you've seen it in politics.

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

And if I am elected, I promise the formation of a new party, a third party, a wild party.

In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.

Politics come from man. Mercy, compassion, and justice come from God.

[ Zionists] dominate the Banking institutions of America and they are the biggest contributors in politics.

A shocked sense of justice has to be removed and justice restored.

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

I'd have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I'd ban the ones made in China.

You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.

I wasn't any good at sports, but I could name all the presidents by the time I was six. I've always been very interested in politics and in religion.

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Pushers don't pay taxes.