Politics Quotes

It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedo...

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his...

Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those p...

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

Look at the tyranny of party-- at what is called party allegiance, party loyalty-- a snare invented ...

No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds th...

But to declare his wishes only in some unknown corner of Asia, to choose the most double-dealing and...

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting ag...

The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the co...

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We...

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but...

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. ...

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whis...

After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind’s ey...

A loose definition of the Tea Party might be fifteen million pissed-off white people sent chasing af...

This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the at...

America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit...

Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob who...

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and ...

What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate res...

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainl...

The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating...

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either am...

It is certain that there can be no work in political economy on any other than an altruistic basis.....

The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often ...

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference t...

We, the black people, the most displaced, the poorest, the most maligned and scourged, we had the gl...

Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or b...

Religion and politics hit nerves. There's a lot of anger about a lot of things. It's not easily reso...

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wan...

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyo...

I went into politics thinking that, if I made arguments in good faith, I'd get a hearing. It's a rea...

I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told ...

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American p...

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consid...

A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.

[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in ...

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You ...

He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “...

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a m...

Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a ...

we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the righ...

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,...

The work of an intellectual is not to form the political will of others; it is, through the analyses...

We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were i...

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been s...

It will be like having an extreme close-up in high definition to examine each freckle, while failing...

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be w...

I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them...

It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apat...

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friend...

Kitsch is the aesthetic ideal of all politicians and all political parties and movements. Those of u...

The ICC [Interstate Commerce Commission] illustrates what might be called the natural history of gov...

I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my...

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thin...

I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about h...

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay att...

I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they ar...

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take ...

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care f...

My life needs editing.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stol...

Scratch a “libertarian” these days, and you will find...a leftist.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and dep...

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

The government belongs to the poor people of the country. We are custodian of people's hope. For who...

Somebody had said how only 15 paisa of the one rupee sent from the Centre reached the intended benef...

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, ...

Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hope...

Watch a man--say, a politician--being interviewed on television, an you are observing a demonstratio...

In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a poll...

The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossib...

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge i...

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your pa...

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones

The U.S. government needs to learn from successful private businesses that run an effective and effi...

These opportunities, then, gave these men the chance they needed, and their great abilities made the...

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor mo...

Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forg...

Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opp...

Men in general are as much affected by what a thing appears to be as by what it is, indeed they are ...

...no one should marvel at the ease with which Alexander [the Great] kept possession of Asia, or at ...

Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite ot...

Armour belonging to someone else either chops off you or weighs you down or is too tight

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuri...

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind y...

Again, a Prince should show himself a patron of merit, and should honour those who excel in every ar...