Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.

Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.

Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.

Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.

Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial firm. Technological compulsions, and not ideology or political will, will require the firm to seek the help and protection of the state.

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.

Thank God for the bomb. Nuke ya, nuke ya.

Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election]

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.

That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears.

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

The anti-tax-cut, soft-on-defense, big-spending Democrats will take the Democratic Party to the edge and maybe over.

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

The best politics is right action.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

The cause of the riots were the rioters

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction

The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.