Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society.

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

We as Democrats have no apologies to make to anyone.

We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.

We can achieve much greater representation through term-limited members.

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.

We cannot learn men from books.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

We can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

We can't have these great corporations crowding competition off the sidewalks. It's like an elephant saying, "Everyone for himself," as he dances among the chickens.

We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.

We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.

We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.

We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights.

We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?

We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.

We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda.

We have an economic policy that is just about 10,000 years out of date.

We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

We lead in exporting jobs.

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part.

Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.

We'll let the sunshine in and shine on us, because today we're happy and tomorrow we'll be even happier.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders.

We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.