Political Quotes

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.

I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

Our political press has just been captured by trivia.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.

Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general.

No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic.

Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.

I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

Reform is like morning glories; they look great early in the day and then they disappear.

This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases.

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

I don't make any apologies for what I do on the campaign trail.

The important question is, how many hands have I shaked?

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.

Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.