Political Quotes
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.
Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.
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.
Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.
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.
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.
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
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 know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.
I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is that the Democrat is a cannibal, they live off each other, while the Republicans live off the Democrats.
Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people
Majority of the African countries are now enjoying stable governance. Before you talk about economic growth, political stability is key.
If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.
In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.
If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.
Sistani’s office refuses the replacement of the law because it is not an Iraqi demand but it is a political demand to please some sides.
The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.
The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown.
Nowhere is it written that NATO had to accept certain countries. All that would have been required to refrain from doing so was the political will. But people didn't want to.
Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.
A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
Let others make war, you happy Austria marry, for kingdoms given to others by Mars, Venus will give to you.
Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.
The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more.
