Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

[Alan] Dershowitz has also offered to defend Osama bin Laden in court, saying it would be an act of high patriotism. It's kind of too bad there isn't going to be a trial. Having Dershowitz defend him could be Osama's only shot at not being the least popular person in the courtroom.

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

All isms end in fascism.

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.

All revolutions devour their own children.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

All that we got here is American made. It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed.

All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

All those men have their price.

All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.

Also, the Federal Advisory Committee should be enlarged and reorganized. Members should be chosen for the broadest possible representation of the public interest, their main qualification: ability.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values seep into every aspect of human endeavour. It's a place where social relations are made over in the image of the market.

American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.

America is great, because America is free.

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.

Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.

And if I am elected, I promise the formation of a new party, a third party, a wild party.

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.

A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.

A newborn has more skills than does a politician. The infant babbles, burbles, cuddles, coos; the politician just babbles.

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.