politics
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘politics’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.” -Estelle Morris
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“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.” -Stewart Udall
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“Frankly, I don’t mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.” -Edward Kennedy
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“I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.” -Gary Hart
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“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.” -Daniel Webster
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“It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.” -Sandra Day O’Connor
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“If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t.” -Hyman Rickover
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“I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.” -A. N. Wilson
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“The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It’s the party of non-voters.” -Robert Reich
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“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.” -Zell Miller
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“The first resistance to social change is to say it’s not necessary.” -Gloria Steinem
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“The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.” -Bill Vaughan
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“The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.” -John Foster Dulles
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“The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.” -Deng Xiaoping
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“I’ve been to war, and it’s not easy to kill. It’s bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.” -Oliver Stone
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“The most important political office is that of the private citizen.” -Louis D. Brandeis
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“Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.” -Daniel J. Boorstin
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“A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.” -Albert Pike
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“The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.” -Fidel Castro
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“Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.” -Lady Bird Johnson
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“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.” -Thomas…
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“The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.” -Theodore White
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“The world is governed by opinion.” -William Ellery Channing
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“A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.” -Leo Rosten
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“The secret of getting things done is to act!” -Dante Alighieri
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“If you don’t like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don’t like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don’t like me, 90 cents.” -Edward Koch
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“When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.” -John W. Gardner
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“Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?” -Robert Orben
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“Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.” -B. R. Ambedkar
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“If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.” -William Tecumseh Sherman
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“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.” -William E. Gladstone
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“A politician will do anything to keep his job – even become a patriot.” -William Randolph
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“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.” -E. B. White
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“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” -A. J. Liebling
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“The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.” -Oscar Levant
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“Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.” -William O. Douglas
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“I think it’s a terrible shame that politics has become show business.” -Sydney Pollack
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“I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.” -Arthur C. Clarke
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“It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.” -George MacDonald
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“A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else’s money.” -Carter Glass
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“One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.” -Cal Thomas
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“In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it’s a sport.” -Dick Gregory
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“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I’m beginning to believe it.” -Clarence Darrow
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“America’s present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.” -Warren G. Harding
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“Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.” -Thurgood Marshall
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“You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.” -Daniel Hannan
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“Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.” -Milton Friedman
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“All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.” -Harry S. Truman
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“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.” -Gore Vidal
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“The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” -John Stuart Mill
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“Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.” -Doug Larson
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“A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.” -Caskie Stinnett
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“‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” -Thomas Paine
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“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.” -Richard Armour
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“Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.” -Pope John Paul II
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“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.” -Arnold H. Glasow
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“Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.” -Jimmy Carter
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“Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.” -W. C. Fields
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“A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.” -Charles W. Pickering
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“There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.” -Gertrude Stein
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“Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.” -Robert Kennedy
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“A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.” -Leonard Bernstein
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“Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote.” -William E. Simon
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“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” -Aesop
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“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.” -Erich Fromm
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“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” -John Quincy Adams
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“Politics have no relation to morals.” -Niccolo Machiavelli
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“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” -Noam Chomsky
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“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” -Khalil Gibran
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“A free America… means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.” -Mark Twain
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“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” -Plato
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“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” -Joseph Stalin
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