Politics Quotes

People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hai...

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve...

Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our e...

In my view, the pro-life movement at this point should focus on seeking to reduce the number of abor...

Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: th...

Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not ha...

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lov...

Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with cons...

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into governm...

I think politics is deadly to write about, frankly. If you have a political agenda and you set out t...

Long ago I decided that at a political meeting the truth usually comes out in just such a speech or ...

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political ...

What are you so angry about?" my mother had asked me the last time I had gone home to visit.Why aren...

Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people...

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large ...

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the...

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a t...

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the ...

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance t...

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate l...

The United States, almost alone today, offers the liberties and the privileges and the tools of free...

a politician is an arse uponwhich everyone has sat except a man

O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte;...

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the t...

Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigid...

Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the stri...

In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that ju...

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of ex...

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to...

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

If you hope for any sort of dialogue and unity with all factions on the vaguely leftist or radical s...

And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic funct...

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a s...

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

It is not necessary to remind you of the fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reac...

I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmi...

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Begi...

Although we cannot attain Jesus in his fullness unless at the same time we also take into account hi...

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws op...

To restore the American experiment in democratic self-government, religious believers need to redoub...

Merkel is an amazing woman, very experienced in international politics.

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succee...

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don...

The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. ...

I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisi...

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

In politics you learn to always smile.

It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.

When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books...

One would think that potential motherhood should make women as a class as sacred as the priesthood. ...

Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have recei...

When she was pregnant with her second child, a midwife asked if Catherine had any unspoken fears abo...

DOGMA: a political belief one is unreasonably committed to, such as the notion that freedom is good ...

I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.

The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the tr...

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

Working in Britain, particularly in the public services, they should be prepared to accept the terms...

But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions...

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to ...

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it...

Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human na...

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket...

Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise ...

A further reason for my hatred of . . . ideologies is quite a primitive one. I have an aversion to k...

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been nor revolutions; there would have been no ch...

What’s going on outside, Ravic?” “Nothing new, Kate. The world goes on eagerly preparing for suicide...

Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the...

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's...

You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the ...

You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be...

He's like a football coach who's smart enough to win the game and dumb enough to think it's importa...

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game...

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and ...

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while t...

Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad get even.

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reforme...

Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for ...

The important thing is that you should not argue with them [Communists]....Whatever you say, they ha...

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political...

Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual...

They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealis...

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of v...

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social v...

I’m not attached to anything.I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty.I think that ...

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither pris...

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, h...

Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You co...

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate...