Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

There's not a dime's worth of difference between Obama and Romney.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.

The respect that I have got is not for Narendra Modi or the PM of India. It is respect for the people of India.

The restoration of property would be a complicated, arduous and presumably a lengthy business; the transformation of a Capitalist Society into a Communist one needs nothing but the extension of existing conditions.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of evidence of that.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.

The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.

The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manufacturers) who are responsible for the death, mutilation or general wretchedness of thousands or millions are rewarded with fame, riches and prizes... If you are going to rob, rob big; if you're going to kill, kill big.

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential.

The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.

The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

The smile of a politician is strong and friendly, but noncommittal.

These tanks were like a good rent-a-car.

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq - one of its largest trading partners - for years, partly because France holds billions in IOUs from Iraq that wouldn't be redeemable by a new regime.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.

The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

The thing is, I hate political comedy. I personally loathe it.

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.