Politics Quotes

There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

... people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.

Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice.

Anyway, I have long had a very definite tendency to tune out the moment I come anywhere near either a pulpit or a soapbox.

When the media enjoy such excessive profits from this mass hysteria, what incentive do they have to restrain it?

When a moral man speaks, listen. But when immoral men speak, toss away their words like bad fruit. Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

Now I think that a true liberal will always prioritize individuals over the group, will always prioritize heresy over orthodoxy, will always prioritize the dissenting voice over the status quo.

When asked my advice as I stroll through the town, “A good lady knows how to take a political assassin down.

A politician is someone who knows everything about running a campaign and nothing about running a country.

In politics all abstract terms conceal treachery.

Politics is not about divide the nation in the name of religion/cast but to the defend the country & represent it in international forums.

Politics is not about divide the nation in the name of religion/cast but to defend the country & represent it in international forums.

That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life.

Lucy's polls were sometimes kind of violent.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

Even preschoolers have their own politics

At every age we play the same game, just by different rules.

A peace that blacked yer eye, ' I say. 'A peace that split yer lip.' He looks at me for another second and then gives a sad snort. “The words of a sage, ” he says, “in the voice of a hick.

It seems to me that wherever religion and politics mix in one body, fascist values - and not 'family values' - rear their ugly head.

If you 'don't do politics', trust me - politics will do you.

If you 'don't do politics', trust me - politics will do you.

How well you express it! That is exactly the curse of a politician's life. He has to bow to the country's feeling, however dangerous and foolhardy he knows it to be.

The masses who complain about bad leadership must first check their unbiased choices.

Corrupt judicial practices in Russia, America, China, Great Britain, and other countries only vary by a single degree: the cost of services.

We've got to escape from narrowness. We're a movement, not a conspiracy. We've got to radiate contacts, and have as many people aware of us as possible. That's living, modern common sense.

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.

Reconciliation without truth is nothing but a smokescreen

Start with an honest analysis of why you are in opposition, not in government.

Nothing can be changed in the system when the system itself is revolting against those who opposed violence.

How can you cry for others’ struggles when you are facilitating mayhem in your own land?

A society is driven by “social fear” always produces the seeds of doubt and unhappiness.

The era of revolution by military means produced a greater degree of desperation and frustration. This was brought to an end by the people.

The most fundamental problem is not that we don’t have a system to run but those with knowledge are cynically manipulating the system for petty personal desires.

When the day to day life is suppressing you, how could you put your moral values and will power to the realm of life?

Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth. Capitalism is stymied, courting long-term disaster.

I personally believe in the power of second chances.

Have you no sense of decency, sir?

All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.

Start with putting three of your friends to jail. You definitely know what for, and people will believe you

Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

You follow voice of masses, Possibly you suppress your inner voice.

There are other ways to beat someone than with fists.

Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison.

One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.

Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so that election must be a matter of chance.

One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.

When a great man stands on a land for a moment, the land becomes not just a great land for a moment, but a great landmark!

If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we are not the left.