Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.

In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland's status as a separate nation.

In other words, under Attorney General John Ashcroft, the FBI, the INS and the Department of Justice are so out of control that they have actually begun to enforce U.S. immigration laws.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

In politics a week is a very long time.

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

In politics, guts is all.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

In poltitics you get what you deserve rather than what you want.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

In sectors like energy, I haven't been arguing for more spending per se; I've been arguing that it doesn't make sense for us to spend $4 billion subsidizing an oil industry that's mature and very profitable. We should be using that money to finance clean energy of the future.

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 early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.

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

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

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 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 war the first casualty is the truth.

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

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

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

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 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.

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