Politics Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

I think we're all fighting for the day in which partisan politics is no longer something that is used to attack women's access to health care.

If you build it, he will come.

Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.

There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.

I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.