U S Politics Quotes
After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.
My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in this country who are hurting.
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.
What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.
Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.