Politics Quotes

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

The country is dying cause of an lack of men, not a lack of programms.

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

Walter Mondale has all the charisma of a speed bump.

Some people love money and get into politics. If they love money so much, they should get into commerce, industry, or do whatever they want - it's no sin. But politics is for serving the people.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.

The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Maybe democrats will eventually turn on Obamacare when they realize you might need a photo I.D. to participate in the program.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

...without equality there can be no democracy.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning.