Political Quotes

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.

No amount of advice change his attitude. He does not listed to good advice. Rather he gets angry.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.

A friend, even if he be the enemy's son , should be protected.

Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.

The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

Remember, freedom is always taken, never given.

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

History is past politics, and politics is present history.

Trust me. I'm going to make sure this healthcare bill is never, ever, ever implemented.

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?

I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.

We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.

Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

The tax code is a monstrosity and there's only one thing to do with it. Scrap it, kill it, drive a stake through its heart, bury it and hope it never rises again to terrorize the American people.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

The political system, folks, is rigged. It's a rigged, disgusting, dirty system.

What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.

We're at the end of an era of failed leadership. We have been led by a divider [Barack Obama] who has sliced and diced the electorate, pitting American against American for political purposes.

So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It is awfully rough, but he does make me laugh.

Nobody knows the political system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

The notion that I had become a political lightning rod was painful for me to experience.

When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.