Political Quotes

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

A military without political training is a potential criminal.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

I only debate with serious political youth formations. Not a group of the racist Helen Zille's garden boys.

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability.

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Religion was created by insecure men to oppress women. Religion is the basis of all political ideas and it exempts the human being to find the "I" in them.

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.

We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.