Politics Quotes
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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.
Sandy Koufax
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If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status quo. Whenever people come to realize that there are larger considerations than their own petty lives, they are ripe to make radical changes on a personal level, which would eventually lead to a political revolution in society as a whole...
John Lennon The Beatles
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Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.
Janet Jackson
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
Plato
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition
William James
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People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.
Plato
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Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.
Willie Brown
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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.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Virgil Goode
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A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
William Randolph Hearst
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Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.
Willem Buiter
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Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
Plato
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My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.
William Shakespeare
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There has been a fundamental change in the paradigm of politics today. I don't think Republicans even realize this.
Eric Massa
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The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.
William James
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Osama, yo Mama didn't raise you right. When you were young, she must have wrapped your turban too tight.
Ray Stevens
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Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones by saying he had merely made clumsy passes, then accepted rejection, so there was no sexual harassment involved. As to his dallying with an emotionally immature 21-year-old, Ms. Steinem noted, 'Welcome sexual behavior is about as relevant to sexual harassment as borrowing a car is to stealing one.' Surely what's good for the Comeback Kid is good for the Terminator.
Maureen Dowd
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Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
William Shakespeare
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The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
William O. Douglas
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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.
Joseph Force Crater
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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.
Eric Bolling
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To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
Noel Gallagher Oasis