Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

One wants recovery to start from the bottom, and the other wants it to start from the top. I don't know which is right. I've never heard of anybody suggesting that they might start it in the middle, so I hereby make that suggestion. To start recovery halfway between the two, because it's the middle class that does everything anyhow. But I don't know anything about it.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Only as strong as our love for this land, only as tall as we stand.

[On Richard M. Nixon:] The Republican nominee would be far worse than another Eisenhower - he is Tricky Dicky of the first magnitude. His entire record is one of opportunism. I cannot feel that there is the remotest sincerity in him, and that clearly he would be the tool of the highest bidder, which is always 'big business.

On the basis of his work each person is fully entitled to consider himself a part owner of the great workbench at which he is working with everyone else. A way toward that goal could be found by associating labor with the ownership of capital joint ownership of the means of work, sharing by the workers in the management and/or profits of businesses, so-called shareholding by labor, etc.

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

Oprah is so rich, I saw John Kerry proposing to her.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.

Osama, yo Mama didn't raise you right. When you were young, she must have wrapped your turban too tight.

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

Our constituency aren't the type of people to be on the Internet.

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.

Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are.

Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

Our nations are so close yet such a visit took 17 years. This will change & we will strengthen India-Nepal ties.

Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the public should feel himself an owner of public property-such as a Town Park-and should therefore respect it as his own, they are saying something which all our experience proves to be completely false. No man feels of public property that it is his own; no man will treat it with the care of the affection of a thing which is his own.

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

Ozone Man, Ozone. He's crazy, way out, far out, man.

Parliamentary committees are becoming more independent, tactics are becoming more sophisticated, and industries that don't want to be bushwhacked by some damaging legislative amendment will have to spend more time and money watching the Hill.

PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Party politics is now a real farce.

Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.

Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.

Pelosi's problem is her spine doesn't reach her brain.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.