Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

Back when they supported segregation, Lott and Thurmond were Democrats.

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

A week is a long time in politics.

Bad jokes, and gay marriage are destroying this country - but torture can save it.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

Before you abuse, criticize, and accuse walk a mile in my shoes.

Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.

Being a conservative on campus is like bing a goat amongst the taliban. You are never safe.

Being free is a state of mind.

Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

Bill Maher is anything but an impartial host. He sucks up to Hollywood liberals because A) he needs to get them back on the show, B) he usually agrees with them, and C) they tend to be wildly ignorant.

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

Bush met with former President Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter is 76 years old, or as Democrats call him 'their bright new star of the future.'

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the possessors of property with personal control over it, as individuals or as families. For property is the necessary condition of economic freedom in the full sense of that term. He that has not property is under economic servitude to him who has property, whether the possessor of it be another individual or the State.

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

But the biggest fake of the year, Paul Begala's last smile

But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.

But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one.

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

California is no longer a state, it's a hedge fund.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and deplorable as if their limbs were covered with manacles. Abstract all property from the hands of labor and you thereby reduce labor to dependence; and that dependence becomes as complete a servitude as the master could fix upon his slave.

Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

Clinton cannot possibly win in 2000.

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.