Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.

One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.

One is only poor, only if they choose to be.

One legged veterans will greet the dawn, and they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn, and the gargoyles on sit and grieve.

One of the biggest differences between liberalism and conservativism these days, is that conservativism isn't what conservativism should be, and liberalism is what liberalism ought not to be.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

One wants recovery to start from the bottom, and the other wants it to start from the top. I don't know which is right. I've never heard of anybody suggesting that they might start it in the middle, so I hereby make that suggestion. To start recovery halfway between the two, because it's the middle class that does everything anyhow. But I don't know anything about it.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Only as strong as our love for this land, only as tall as we stand.

[On Richard M. Nixon:] The Republican nominee would be far worse than another Eisenhower - he is Tricky Dicky of the first magnitude. His entire record is one of opportunism. I cannot feel that there is the remotest sincerity in him, and that clearly he would be the tool of the highest bidder, which is always 'big business.

On the basis of his work each person is fully entitled to consider himself a part owner of the great workbench at which he is working with everyone else. A way toward that goal could be found by associating labor with the ownership of capital joint ownership of the means of work, sharing by the workers in the management and/or profits of businesses, so-called shareholding by labor, etc.

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

Oprah is so rich, I saw John Kerry proposing to her.

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.

Osama, yo Mama didn't raise you right. When you were young, she must have wrapped your turban too tight.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Our constituency aren't the type of people to be on the Internet.

Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are.

Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.

Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.

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

Our nations are so close yet such a visit took 17 years. This will change & we will strengthen India-Nepal ties.

Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

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.

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

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

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.

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

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.

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

Party politics is now a real farce.

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

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

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

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.