Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic economic dictatorship is consolidated in the hands of a few, who often are not owners but only the trustees and managing directors of invested funds which they administer according to their own arbitrary will and pleasure. This dictatorship is being most forcibly exercised by those who, since they hold the money and completely control it, control credit also and rule the lending of money.

In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

In the present state of human society, however, We deem it advisable that the wage-contract should, when possible, be modified somewhat by a contract of partnership, as is already being tried in various ways to the no small gain both of the wage-earners and of the employers. In this way wage-earners are made sharers in some sort in the ownership, or the management, or the profits.

In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

In war the first casualty is the truth.

In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has, which is to say zero.

In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free.

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.

Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Iraq has not been disarmed 100 percent [but] in terms of what they [Iraqis] have accomplished there are no meaningful weapons or weapons production capability in Iraq today.

I say one evil empire down...one to go.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.

I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.

I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.

...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

I still recall the excitement & patriotic fervour in Kargil when Tiger Hill was won.

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.

I still have that new senator smell.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.

I think that some restriction on speech is appropriate.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.

It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.