Politics Quotes

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

In politics, what appears is.

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.

Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.

(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.

We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

Reading musses up my mind.

I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports.

We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.

Im the lamest lame duck there could be.

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

[Virginia] has a very sizeable collection of democrats, liberals and moonbats. (Yes, they can be separated.)

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen.

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

Currency warfare is the most destructive form of economic warfare.

I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

Revolutions never go backward.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.