Politics Quotes

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.

Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how.

I keep my politics a little closer to me than others do.

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.

I don't think Israel's becoming more religious, I think its politics is becoming more religious. There's a difference.

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.

One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a little bit more than they normally would.

I think the fact that we have been focussing on politics quite a lot and the tumult of politics rather than what we should be doing in terms of policy has made, I think, voters quite grumpy.

I'm a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable.

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.

Howard Dean knows about as much about the South as a hog knows about Sunday.

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.

Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.

The world feels overwhelming to me on every level. Just the number of organisms that live on this planet. Our politics, our violence, psychology, emotions; there's just a lot going on, right?

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Tikka Khan won't try to stick his nose in politics.

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules, Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.

What's missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency.

The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.

We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.

War is young men dying and old men talking

Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S

Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he’s shown his colors, run the people, making laws. Experience, there’s the test.

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

The purpose of the state is really freedom.