Best 6777 quotes in «political quotes» category

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Never in our history have we been headed at such breakneck speed toward our own financial, political and cultural destruction. One can only pray that before it's too late, enough Democrats will come to their senses and help get this freight train under control.

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

Never once have Democrats benefited from attempts at reasonableness and compromise and accommodation. To the contrary, Bush and his team seem to view political compromise as weakness, and they punish it rather than reward or reciprocate it.

Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent.

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.

Nevertheless, I have no political agenda whatsoever, even though some might think the contrary.

Never wound a snake; kill it.

Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies. They've done so in three ways: by dramatically boosting the access of individuals and special interests to politically potent information, by making it easier for such people to coordinate their activities and exert political power, and by greatly increasing the pace of events within our political systems.

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

Newsweek recently asked American women which women they admire the most, and the answer varied, actually, depending on which political party you were from... Republican women picked Oprah as the most admired woman, followed by Sarah Palin. Democratic women said Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman, followed by Oprah Winfrey. Independents also picked Oprah Winfrey, followed by Diane Sawyer.

New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

Nicholas Sarkozy made the point that both America and France have political systems that they want to share with the world. There's an emphasis on being a unique person. Screw you if you don't like it. But the problem is, they're all the same.

Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular political discourse.

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

No amount of advice change his attitude. He does not listed to good advice. Rather he gets angry.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

No, Blitz. That's oversimplifying it.

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

Nobody knows the political system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.

Nobody's going to vote for terrorism. So our governments don't have that sort of political pressure to act in a responsible manner when it comes to stewardship of our rights.

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.

Nobody who knows me has ever thought I was a racist, bigot, all of this stuff. All of a sudden I'm on the radio and I become one, if you listen to liberal critics. I'm a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe. I'm a hater and all of this stuff. I'm none of those things and never have been. It's all because of my political views.

No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time. In the domestic field there is tranquillity and contentment, harmonious relations between management and wage earner, freedom from industrial strife, and the highest record of years of prosperity.

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

No kid graduating in a political science class in Canada should not understand what's happened to income inequality since the 1970s, period. And then, what do we do about it? It's the biggest problem out there, in all western liberal societies.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.