Politics Quotes

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the indi...

I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a re...

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Wi...

What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience. I h...

If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't ne...

Come senators, congressmenPlease heed the callDon't stand in the doorwayDon't block up the hallFor h...

The line it is drawnThe curse it is castThe slow one nowWill later be fastAs the present nowWill lat...

McChrystal had organized a jaw-dropping counterterrorism campaign inside Iraq, but the tactical succ...

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be...

There must be room in our world for eccentricity, even if it offends the prudes, and room for the va...

The rulers of your minds indulge in proverbs, but they've forgotten the main one, that love cannot b...

Kelsier exhaled in exasperation. “Elend Venture? You risked your life—risked the plan, and our lives...

That, after all, was his job. The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty.To make everyt...

...Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to le...

Why, if you only knew the secrets to which I'm p

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired...

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you ...

You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, the...

But his political sense kept up a persistent itch that said: A, Given ignorance in the mix, stupidit...

In politics all abstract terms conceal treachery.

Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs,...

One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Ha...

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressi...

But of course, when they ask for a "lead from the church," most people mean they want the clergy to ...

Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: ...

I gather they are even vaguely pacifist, not on moral grounds but from an ingrained habit of belittl...

Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken...

The only road to freedom is self-education in art. Art is not a luxury for any advancedcivilization;...

June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the rece...

To those who will decide if he should be tried for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' -the House of Repr...

He believed the press was doing its job, but, in the absence of candor from the committee, it had re...

Bernstein was impressed by Sloan's thoughtfulness. Sloan seemed convinced that the President, whom h...

The suppression of uncomfortable ideasmay be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path...

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my positio...

But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - ar...

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and...

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not ...

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not b...

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

We maintain, on the contrary, that war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the a...

Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Ho...

Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governm...

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degrada...

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel...

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous...

That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life.

Lucy's polls were sometimes kind of violent.

You sold out! We elected you, and you sold out! The next time we have an election, I think everyone ...

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a singl...

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the...

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.

In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to fe...

I didn`t change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.

And just like that, as if I hadn't said anything at all, the ladies sprang into a conversation about...

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a le...

The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.

For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.

In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and ...

In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and ...

The danger we face does not come from religion. It comes from a growing intellectual bankruptcy that...

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we...

The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials ...

If you say you're a unifier, you expect and usually get applause. I'm a divider. Politics is divisio...

Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient wit...

So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelie...

Orwell's short and intense life has for years borne witness to some of those verities of which we we...

Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefe...

Those of us who follow politics seriously rather than view it as a game show do not look at Hillary ...

1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani genera...

One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good th...

Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by c...

This brings us to the crux moment in the supposed 'Show Trial' melodrama. Employing the confusing an...

Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distru...

This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a poin...

One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact ab...

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. I...

His style as a writer places him in the category of the immortals, and his courage as a critic outli...

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization again...

Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repud...

In the same essay, Said (who is reviewing Peter Stansky and William Abrams, co-authors obsessed with...

There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subg...

At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelie...

Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has no...

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when ...

I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the...

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking f...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton w...

Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front f...

One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and ho...

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisiv...

A note on language. Be even more suspicious than I was just telling you to be, of all those who empl...