Politics Quotes

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

I'd put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

You can choose not to be interested in politics, but you can’t choose to be unaffected by it

Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather bizarre friends and allies.

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

Who watches the watchmen?

Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.

I don't feel too comfortable talking about politics and media as I feel like I don't sound too smart.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they guillotined all the smart people in 1793.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.