Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.

Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.

Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it is regarded as an amateurish and cranky fad.

Kelso and Adler's book could start a revolution.

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

[Khrushchev] should get a one-ton medal.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.

Learn to think continentally.

Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.

Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word, won. That's pretty much the full argument: Restate a factual proposition with sneering quote marks.

Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination. So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining 'enough.' The predictable result is that they always get more, and it's never enough.

Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.

Like the archers of Agincourt, John O'Neal and the 254 Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman.

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

Make that money run like honey on your tongue.

Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.

Making mistakes is how you learn.

Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

Make no mistake about those who call themselves anti Zionist are anti Semitic.

Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.