Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

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.

The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.

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

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.

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

The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manufacturers) who are responsible for the death, mutilation or general wretchedness of thousands or millions are rewarded with fame, riches and prizes... If you are going to rob, rob big; if you're going to kill, kill big.

The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential.

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

The smile of a politician is strong and friendly, but noncommittal.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.

These tanks were like a good rent-a-car.

The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.

The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.

the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.