Politics Quotes
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.The one that's out always looks the best
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....
Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workingmen of all countries unite!
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the
I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.
Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.
I've got daughters. Nine years old and six years old. First of all, I'm gonna teach them about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them PUNISHED with a baby.
Over the last fifteen months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been to fifty-seven states. I think, one left to go.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)
I’m not attached to anything.I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty.I think that I will die with the boots on.
behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.
In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but he must get there first.
In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names…
I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.
We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't fear the voices of people. And yet they do.
The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.
Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues....
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.
Politics is downstream from culture and not the other way around.
To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America.
Politics devoid of ethics does not further human welfare, and life without morality reduces humans to the level of beasts.
Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
...if that Watergate case ever gets into court, he might get very nervous.
Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.
Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel.
The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...
Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.
He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames.
The problem of political theory is how to combine that degree of individual initiative which is necessary for progress, with the degree of social cohesion which is necessary for survival.
Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.