Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!

Had Marx understood the implications of the principles of capitalistic distribution which presented themselves to him as "appearances" only, he might have become a revolutionary capitalist instead of a revolutionary socialist.

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

Have pity on a dinosaur.

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

Have you forgotten when those towers fell, we had neighbors still inside. And you say we shouldn't worry about Bin Laden, have you forgotten?

Having the democrats watch your money is like having Michael Vick watch your dog for the weekend

He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and acquiesce when his opinion is freely overruled, will attain his object in the end.

Health care is a right, not a privilege.

He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Hell is full of high court judges.

He loves power. He loves control because others, you know, dad and stuff like that, but he's just a great guy. He's just a great guy.

He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.

He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

Here is their plan. Whistle a happy tune while driving us off a fiscal cliff as long as they are behind the wheel of power when we fall.

Here's another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high taxes, he wants business to help the little fellow to get started and get some work, and then pay business back by buying things when he's at work. Business says, 'Let everybody alone. Let business alone, and quit monkeying with us, and we'll get everything going for you, and if we prosper, naturally the worker will prosper.'

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

He's a politician. That's a notch below child molester.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

He wants Obama to do one thing, call him ... He said, if you can, Dennis, I don't want to do war. I don't want to do war. He said that to me.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

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

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican.

I am a public library

I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.

I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.