Political Quotes

To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.

The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom.

No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.

The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.

The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.

A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.

I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.

The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.

One insult pocketed soon produces another.

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."

Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

Politicians are leeches, mostly.

I probably will have to become more political down the road when my playing days are done, because I'm going to have to have the support of others to grow my foundation.

Our political process appears to be a toxic dance of mutually assured destruction that takes all the citizens down with you, and that can't be right. So I've prepared a little experiment.

I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.

You can stick a fork in Barack Obama. Politically, he's done. The main way we can screw this up is if we choose the wrong Republican.

I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.

I think when Aristotle said that man is a political animal, he was really saying that man is a pack animal.

I'm not a political guy. I've been a Democrat my whole life, but that didn't mean I went in and just pulled the Democratic ticket.

By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.

There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

People that had the guts to put their loyalty to the Constitution ahead of their loyalty to their political party were citizen legislators.

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

We can achieve much greater representation through term-limited members.

I still believe that term limits is the best way to ensure that the next generation, not the next election, is the central concern in our elected bodies.

Careerism in Washington "goes to the heart of what's wrong in America right now."

The voting records of virtually every member of Congress reveal that the oath of office is more a ceremonial gesture than a sacred commitment.

It is easy to see how after receiving this adoration for a term or two most members become convinced they are indispensable.

Career politicians do not have the courage to prioritize spending and say no to demanding special interest groups who do not reflect the best interests of the country.

The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.

People are not hungry because we dont produce enough. People are hungry for political reasons.

Calculated and craven political stunt.

Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.

The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money.

It's a very insular political community up there. I think the court's part of that and they're protecting their own. There's no justice in Vermont today.

I don't believe that clothes can start a revolution, but I do believe that fashion is often a manifestation of a sociological or political climate.

We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's [Sanders] the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history, and she's the winner on the mathematical basis.

I don't put much faith in the political system because it's a question of how are you going to run capitalism, not how are we going to develop a different system to capitalism.

I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on everybody.