Politics Quotes
Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?
The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.
There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.
The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place.
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.
Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.
Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.
If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.
In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.
Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.
American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.
Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!
In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.
Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.
I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.
When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them
If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.
Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
