Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the range of choice and the autonomy (not to mention the leisure and freedom) of the family even partially supported by capital ownership?

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.

There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.

There Is No Terrorist Threat In This Country. This Is A Lie. This Is The Biggest Lie We've Been Told.

There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons... use them.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.

There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we want what's best for you'. But really what they want is the control of your life.

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

There's a lot of bleeding idiots in t'country and they deserve some representation.

The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!

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

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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