Political Quotes

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

Benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will be subordinate and by which they will be dominated.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

This is the political culture of the United States, which one should accept as is. The United States is a great country and it deserves non-interference and no third-party comments.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

Russia should be an effective and competitive state with a sustainable economy, developed social and political system flexible to changes domestically and globally.

I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.

I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

A lot of political people, especially people on the left, have forgotten the importance of humor as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through which to affect change.

Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some sense of what it means to be one or the other.

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.

Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.

This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.

The highest form of patriotism is dissent.

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.

Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best

It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.

If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.