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Famous Quotes about politics“ Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. ” “ Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. ” “ The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. ” “ We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are. ” “ Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. ” “ In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. ” “ As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so. ” “ The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed. ” “ A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward. ” “ The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. ” “ Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ” “ Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning? ” “ Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. ” “ While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward. ” “ Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ” “ The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. ” “ A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. ” “ When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time. ” “ Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. ” “ What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? ” “ We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor like you like to be liked yourself. ” “ In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. ” “ All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. ” “ People do not make wars; governments do. ” “ The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. ” “ During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. ” “ Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom. ” “ It is much safer to obey than to rule. ” “ I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature. ” “ Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power. ” “ Politics is not an exact science. ” “ ohh. Great warrior.Wars not make one great. ” “ No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none. ” “ Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. ” “ Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. ” “ Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute. ” “ We have to talk in terms of making a clean break. We must do this to shock people and make them think. Later we must try to look for common ground. ” “ I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest. ” “ I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ” “ When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. ” “ Winning the peace is harder than winning the war. ” “ We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America. ” “ We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq. ” “ Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever. ” “ Great liars are also great magicians. ” “ Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ” “ I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master. ” “ As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy. ” “ One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. ” “ Politics is the art of the next best. ” “ From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion? ” “ Politics have no relation to morals. ” “ A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. ” “ Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ” “ All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. ” “ Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. ” “ Whatever he does, Dick will do it his own way, because whatever he does, it will be the subject of ridicule.” ” “ For there is one thing we must never forget… the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards. ” |
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