Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

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

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

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 socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

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

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

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

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

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

If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

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.

If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.

If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses - you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad that I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, "To hell with you.

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

If you ever get a war without blood and gore, well, I'll be the first to go.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

Ignore their heathen prayers and help us blow those little bastards straight to Hell. Amen.

I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

I happen to be a Republican President... ah... the Vice President.