Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

We'll let the sunshine in and shine on us, because today we're happy and tomorrow we'll be even happier.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders.

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

We need to understand that there is no formula for how women should lead their lives. that is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Every woman deserves the chance to realize her God-given potential.

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.

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.

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 great questions end, little parties begin.

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