Politics Quotes
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Further, it would take one of those impossible coincidences that the Modern Liberal relies on so heavily to explain how it is that the two most religious nations in the Western World - the United States and Israel - are also arguably the world's two most scientifically and technologically advanced.
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When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.
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The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.
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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.
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Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
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To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.
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Politics is my second passion, but as a historian, you have to be genuinely neutral. You have failed in your primary duty as a historian if you are one side or the other.
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Politics is a lot like acting. You have to be on all the time.
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We live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton's Oval Office.
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I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody.
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
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No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.
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Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.
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The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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I fell into politics by accident. It was not something I planned. It just happened because I'd done so much reading and work in the community, I was prepared to do the job when the opportunity came along.
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Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.
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Politics is not an isolated, individualist adventure. Women really need to emerge as a power to be the countervailing power to the men. And Eleanor Roosevelt's really the dynamo and the spearhead of that effort.
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Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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Just because we have exotic last names or darker faces, our politics are assumed to be radical. But that is simply not the case.
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[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.
