Politics Quotes

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

I grew up with three brothers and no sisters. That's the best preparation for politics any girl can have.

The American people are growing extremely unhappy with establishment politics, with establishment economics, and you know what else? Even with establishment media.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Politics is social work with power.

Whoever you are, or want to be, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

If you were buying products or going to movies based upon the politics of the people involved, well I probably couldn't go to half the movies I go to.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.

There are more inspirational people in music than there are in politics.

The government transfers income and wealth according to the rules of politics, which make politicians the primary beneficiaries of the system, and the poor and needy the primary victims.

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

Politics is history in the making.

When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right.

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.

If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired.

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.

In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.

One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.