Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

Therefore those governing the State ought primarily to devote themselves to the service of individual groups and of the whole commonwealth, and through the entire scheme of laws and institutions to cause both public and individual well-being to develop spontaneously out of the very structure and administration of the state.

There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor.

There has been no case made - based on anything other than speculation - that Iraq poses a threat.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

There is a cannibalism that's loose in our society in which public figures such as the Clintons could try to come into this town and do something good for this country and then they get hammered away even though they're trying to do the right thing.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the range of choice and the autonomy (not to mention the leisure and freedom) of the family even partially supported by capital ownership?

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.

There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.

There Is No Terrorist Threat In This Country. This Is A Lie. This Is The Biggest Lie We've Been Told.

There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons... use them.

There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.

There's a lot of bleeding idiots in t'country and they deserve some representation.

There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we want what's best for you'. But really what they want is the control of your life.

The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

There's not a dime's worth of difference between Obama and Romney.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man.

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

The respect that I have got is not for Narendra Modi or the PM of India. It is respect for the people of India.

The restoration of property would be a complicated, arduous and presumably a lengthy business; the transformation of a Capitalist Society into a Communist one needs nothing but the extension of existing conditions.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of evidence of that.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.