Politics Quotes

Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.

Revolutions are always verbose.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.

Food, clothes and shelter have no politics.

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

Politics is everywhere.. it is in your shirt.. in your pants.. everywhere.

Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.

Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.

What the people here have said is that given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the same old, same old establishment politics and establishment economics.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none.

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.