Politics Quotes

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

If only the left hated crime as much as they hated hate.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

Presidents are selected, not elected.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.

There is much that women can bring into politics that would make our world a kinder, gentler place for humanity to thrive in.

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or ‘patterns of culture’ without taking geography into account.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.