Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.

It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.

It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

It is therefore our business to restore economic freedom through the restoration of the only institution under which it flourishes, which institution is Property. The problem before us is, how to restore Property so that it shall be, as it was not so long ago, a general institution.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

It occurs to us that so-called "freedom fries" kill many more Americans than terrorists ever do.

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

It's an article of faith in Tinseltown: when liberals get mired in scandal, it's because they are tragically flawed; when conservatives get in trouble, it's because they are evil.

It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.

It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.

It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

It's so much more fun to watch FOX when it's someone else being blitzed & sacked!

It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.

It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.

It takes a particularly rarified variety of idiot to look at a Jew-hating fascist with a small mustache - and decide that his opponent is the Nazi.

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one

It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property.

It was only his fifth offense, and this time he's killed someone.

It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.

It would be bad for the economy if we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.

It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

I understand the chairman of the Senate Ethics comittee is going to examine the check-bouncing scandal with a microscope. ...makes sense... If you're going to look at ethics in Congress, a microscope is what you need.

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

I've always wanted to do more significant stuff. I think of myself as well-informed, but the hardest thing to do is talk about politics and current events and be funny and not just preachy.

I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.