Politics Quotes

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

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

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.

I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!

Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.

There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.

Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.

In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

Teenagers have a legitimate voice. We deserve to have a seat at the table and a place in the conversation. We're not exempt from politics and social movements; we're affected by them.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

Patriotism corrupts history.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.