Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.

She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea

She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.

...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

Since it is to the advantage of the wage-payer to pay as little as possible, even well-paid labor will have no more than what is regarded in a particular society as the reasonable level of subsistence. The lower ranks of labor will commonly have less, and if public relief were afforded even up to the wage-level of the lowest ranks of labor, that relief would compete in the labor market; check or dry up the supply of wage-labor. It would tend to render the performance of work by the wage-earner redundant.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

Socialism is a dead horse.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt.

Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten

Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

Sound doctrine is sound politics.

Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Sophia Loren is not a citizen.

So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

Spouting quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara, which are as germane to our highly technological, computerized, cybernetic, nuclearpowered, mass media society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.

Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.

Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.

Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.

Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.

Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial firm. Technological compulsions, and not ideology or political will, will require the firm to seek the help and protection of the state.

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.