Politics Quotes
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It's shocking. There is no fundamental reason. Prices are talked up by politics, stock levels and security concerns.
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I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government, in a democratic society. It's a challenge for school reformers, like reformers in any realm, to build a popular constituency for their work. If the people it's supposed to benefit vote against it, that tells me that the person pushing reform lacks political skill. And political skill is a good thing.
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Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
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The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.
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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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Thank God for the bomb. Nuke ya, nuke ya.
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Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.
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The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school - and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January.
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I hear people saying we don't need this war, I say there's some things worth fighting for. What about our freedom and this piece of ground, we didn't get to keep them by backing down.
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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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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.
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I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.
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The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
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I always had this feeling when writing about all politics... that when it's so lopsided, that if a newspaper or news organization has any weight whatsoever, it should automatically go to the other side.
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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.
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Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
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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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Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.
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It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.
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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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People in show business who are interested in politics, like Ronald Reagan, fare so well because they do know the magic of dealing with the public. This is something that can't be taught in a book. If they can produce after they've won over the public. If you can live up to your ballyhoo, you've got it made.
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The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.
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The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
