Political Quotes

If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office.

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: 'that world is gone.'

Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause these humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change?

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.

Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city [Danzig], rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations.

He reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty.

I'm not consumed with political machinations.

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.

If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.

The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.

The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.

If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?'

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.