Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn't know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

This administration is totally colorblind.

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy.

This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.

This is what many people in the movie industry don't get: when you express hostility to conservatives, many Americans feel that you're expressing hostility to them.

This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.

This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.

Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.

This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to dogma as any junior member of the Spanish Inquisition.

Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

Thus, the capital owner is not a parasite or a rentier but a worker - a capital worker. A distinction between labor work and capital work suggests the lines along which we could develop economic institutions capable of dealing with increasingly capital-intensive production, as our present institutions cannot.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women.

To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life.

Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border.

[Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I've no patience with that leftist mentality anymore.

Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

To get rich is glorious.

To feed ten mouths, she had to call on Mr. Welfare.

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

Trust not too much to appearances

Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.