Politics Quotes
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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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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves
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I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.
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We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.
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Here is one of the first rules of politics: it's not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.
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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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We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.
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So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!
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Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.
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I believe that politics in the 21th century shouldn’t be about pressure, force, or intimidation. This kind of politics has no future and no prospect. I believe that only by seeking a compromise and a negotiated agreement can we achieve any success in today’s world.
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Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.
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I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians. They may think that they are very smart about everything because they made millions of dollars by digging a hole in the ground and finding oil, but the talent and luck needed to become rich are not the same talent and luck needed to succeed on Parliament Hill.
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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.
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You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.
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… I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.
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The American people are really kind of tired of this finger-pointing issue and politics all the time, ... I think it would behoove all of us to work together to try to find the answers.
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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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Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.
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[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.
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[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.
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No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again...
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It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it
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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.
