Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.

No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

No one's gonna sympathize when we crash, they'll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask.

No party is as bad as its leaders.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.

Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Nothing drives your opponents more crazy than being utterly reasonable. And nothing makes demonizing or delegitimizing your opponents easier than letting them shriek unreasonable things for you. The Republicans need to get back to being the party that elicits unreasonable shrieking from their opponents. Not the other way around.

Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.

Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

Nothing disturbs me more than the downward trend of productivity in our nation today. The consequences of a decrease in productivity are a diminished standard of living, higher labor costs, less competitive prices, and more inflation.

Nothing in politics is ever so good or as bad as it first appears.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.

....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal.

No torture has yet been devised that could get a liberal to mention the poor, beleaguered Kurds dancing in the streets because Saddam is gone.

No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.

Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

[Obamacare] has to be enforced because nobody wants it. This is the nature of progressive government they don't care if it's not good for you. It's good for them.

Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

One is only poor, only if they choose to be.

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.

One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

One legged veterans will greet the dawn, and they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn, and the gargoyles on sit and grieve.

One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.

One of the biggest differences between liberalism and conservativism these days, is that conservativism isn't what conservativism should be, and liberalism is what liberalism ought not to be.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.