Politics Quotes
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I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
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There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons.
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Destiny planned out, I don't need no hand out.
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My Methodist upbringing was very formative in my politics. I was born in 1969, and there was all this ecumenical 'we're in this together' sensitivity that was part of the United Methodist Church in the 1970s.
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The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.
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The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
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But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long century, and we've had enough of them.
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We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.
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The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.
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Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people involved in politics have asked me why I keep going on about spirituality.
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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
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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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In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.
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It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.
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Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
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In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.
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Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors.
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Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.
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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
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It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.
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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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As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
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Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
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I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.
