Politics Quotes
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Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors.
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Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
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I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.
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So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.
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Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
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The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.
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Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.
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A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
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Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.
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I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office.
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Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do.
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Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office then.
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In politics, a conflict only exists in public; otherwise it is merely a potential for conflict, which we can never be certain exists or will materialize.
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I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.
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What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.
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President Obama, right after the Gabby Gifford shooting said we need to usher in a new era of civil discourse in politics. But not heeding his own advice.
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Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.
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I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.
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The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.
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I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I don't think I'd get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn't want them to see.
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All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.
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Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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I don't know a lot about politics but I have great trust in him as leader.
