Politics Quotes
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
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They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.
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That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
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Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.
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I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.
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Everything is so weird in politics that it's very hard to be funny about it, I think.
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I'm not after anything, I don't want to be part of politics, I don't want to be a part of anything.
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Our goals are also the same, to have a just system of economics and politics, to let the people of the world share in growth, in peace, in personal freedom, and in the benefits to be derived from the proper utilization of natural resources. We believe in enhancing human rights. We believe that we should enhance, as independent nations, the freedom of our own people.
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Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
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It seems improbable to me that ... politics hasn't trumped science here, which is a tragedy.
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Women are the volatile vote at the end-particularly independent, non-college-educated married women.
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It's hard to talk about politics in a Hollywood world.
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I was protected from a lot of publicity and politics of life.
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Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.
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It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.
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Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.
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Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.
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It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you say - which means that other people should not have the same right to free speech that they claim for themselves.
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You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none.
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No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.
