Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

We regret mistakes were made.

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.

We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics.

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

We spend more money on antacids than we do on politics.

We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts.

We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

What are truck rental companes and fertilizer salesman goign to do in response to the OK city bombing?

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't tell him to do that. I can't tell him to do that to himself. You're crazy. You're absolutely crazy. You're getting as bad as Biden.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

Whatever we say here today is not against any party or person. We are not here to do politics. I have not stood up here to save a government... we want swaraaj, the people's rule, in Delhi.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they become concession-happy and will accede to almost anything.

...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick.

When capital owners are few, the private-property conduits of necessity create vast savings reservoirs for those few. If there were many owners, the same conduits would broadly irrigate the economy with purchasing power.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.