Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also eventually unstable, dangerously ripe for religious and political extremism.

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

If a person, in a position of authority, wants someone to believe a lie, usually all they have to do is tell it to them. If they want someone to believe a ridiculous lie, all they have to do is tell it to them enough.

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

If a teacher misses a target, they change the teacher, If a minister misses a target, they change the target

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy.

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

If the Federal Reserve pursues a policy which Congress or the President believes not to be in the public interest, there is nothing Congress can do to reverse the policy. Nor is there anything the people can do. Such bastions of unaccountable power are undemocratic. The Federal Reserve System must be reformed, so that it is answerable to the elected representatives of the people.

If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.

If the old dog hadn't got distracted by the fire plug, he would have caught the rabbit.

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office.

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption in the form of return on invested capital, less than 1 percent of United States households are capitalists.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, 'I told you so.'

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.