Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

Ozone Man, Ozone. He's crazy, way out, far out, man.

Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the public should feel himself an owner of public property-such as a Town Park-and should therefore respect it as his own, they are saying something which all our experience proves to be completely false. No man feels of public property that it is his own; no man will treat it with the care of the affection of a thing which is his own.

PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.

Parliamentary committees are becoming more independent, tactics are becoming more sophisticated, and industries that don't want to be bushwhacked by some damaging legislative amendment will have to spend more time and money watching the Hill.

Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Party politics is now a real farce.

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

Pelosi's problem is her spine doesn't reach her brain.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.

Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.

Political power without economic power is sterile.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics didn't lead me to working people. Working people led me into politics.

Politics for me is not Ambition but a Mission.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.

politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

Politics is a game requiring great coolness.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

Politics is mostly pill-taking.