Politics Quotes

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same.

I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

Government should do a few things, and do them right

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it.

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are.

If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.

You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.

Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.

If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises".

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.

We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.

Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.

Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger.

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy.

If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.

It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.

Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream?

I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

It’s amazing that people don’t understand that the more the market is involved and the smaller the government, the lower the price, the better the distribution, and the higher the quality.

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.