Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

The mere fact that so many who espouse such far-right views and beliefs still exist in this society is incarnate proof that Darwin's theories apply solely to biological processes and not to processes of the spirit.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure of one's own money, but to some extent the system is. We cannot have a system in which the only people you can count on for a vote that doesn't look as though it might be a vote for a special-interest group are people with enormous fortunes.

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

The movies were custard compared to politics.

The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.

The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore

The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

The only future Barack Obama is trying to win is his own re-election.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... . For while there may be some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang, or Cambridge, MA.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

The personal is political.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.

The political is personal.

The point is to make the pie grow faster and distribute the new growth more equitably.

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects.

The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.