Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

The flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.

The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea.

The glory that was Lincoln's never died when he was slain.

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

The gods hate unjust men.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

The Greek word for idiot, literally translated, means one who does not participate in politics. That sums up my conviction on the subject.

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent is as - it is as if he has killed all mankind.

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

The institution of private property... is undergoing, at this time, a strain never put on it before. Not because the corporation, in essence, is retrogressive or unrepublican, but because in fact, it is unrepublican, and for that reason retrogressive also.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic.

The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

(T)he Left has moved so far to the left that this pro-choice, lesbian feminist is now considered a Right-Winger!

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

The libertarian good society lies... in the maximum dispersion of property compatible with effective production or, as process, in progressive reconciliation of conflicts between equality and efficiency. Such process involves increasing dispersion both of wealth among persons and families and of proximate productional control among enterprises or firms.

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.

The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.

The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs.

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.