Politics Quotes
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The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.
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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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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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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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I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.
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I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.
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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.
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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 best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
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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.
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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.
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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 don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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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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Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
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But there is something seriously problematic about radicals and progressives in American politics. Some say it's the two-party system that squashes third parties. Some say that it's the potentiality or expanse of the middle class that marginalizes people that want to reform the system itself. Some make a sort of psychological analysis, that the left doesn't want to win, that success means co-optation. All of those things have some merit.
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The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
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Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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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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I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.
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Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicisation of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanisation of politics.
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Destiny planned out, I don't need no hand out.
