Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

God of ages, Lord of Time, mine is the right to be wrong.

Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.

Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.

Good government is good politics.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.

Government has only one religion - India first! Government has one holy book - the Constitution. The Government must be immersed in only one Bhakti- Bharat Bhakti! The Government's only strength is Jan Shakti! Government's only ritual is the well being of the 125 crore Indians! The only code of conduct of the Government should be 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas!

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads.

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Gratitude is not a normal feature of political life.

Great ideology creates great times.

Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!

Had Marx understood the implications of the principles of capitalistic distribution which presented themselves to him as "appearances" only, he might have become a revolutionary capitalist instead of a revolutionary socialist.

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

Have pity on a dinosaur.

He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and acquiesce when his opinion is freely overruled, will attain his object in the end.

Having the democrats watch your money is like having Michael Vick watch your dog for the weekend

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

Have you forgotten when those towers fell, we had neighbors still inside. And you say we shouldn't worry about Bin Laden, have you forgotten?

Health care is a right, not a privilege.

He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

Hell is full of high court judges.

He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.

He loves power. He loves control because others, you know, dad and stuff like that, but he's just a great guy. He's just a great guy.

Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

Here is their plan. Whistle a happy tune while driving us off a fiscal cliff as long as they are behind the wheel of power when we fall.

He's a politician. That's a notch below child molester.

Here's another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high taxes, he wants business to help the little fellow to get started and get some work, and then pay business back by buying things when he's at work. Business says, 'Let everybody alone. Let business alone, and quit monkeying with us, and we'll get everything going for you, and if we prosper, naturally the worker will prosper.'

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

He wants Obama to do one thing, call him ... He said, if you can, Dennis, I don't want to do war. I don't want to do war. He said that to me.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.