Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.

Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.

[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

Seriously, he is just a voice on the radio, unlike the ones in your head, you don't have to do what he tells you to do.

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 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.

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

Socialism is a dead horse.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

Sound doctrine is sound politics.

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

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.

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.

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

Take it from me, every vote counts.

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