Political Quotes

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.

Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.

I think it's very troubling to see the reality of where the American political establishment is going - into this big tent, which is one happy Demo-Republican family.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

Of one thing we can be certain: every person we see - no matter the race, religion, political beliefs, body type, or appearance - is family.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.

I do love poop. I can't help it. The heart wants what it wants. I enjoy being clever and pithy and political, but nothing's going to get me like dumb stuff.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

I am extraordinarily proud of the campaign that we ran. The issues that we raised, the fact that we got 13 million Americans to vote for a political revolution.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious.

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.

Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

The internet is changing all forms of communication, and this definitely includes political communication.

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.

American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.

Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his political party.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

Would you respect a God you could comprehend? And yet very often that’s what we want - a God who reflects our culture, our biases, our economic, political, and military systems.

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.