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Politics Quotes
"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy."
337
"It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy."
125
"A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies."
106
"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."
97
"We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done."
82
"You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany."
75
"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
73
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects. Everyone writes of them in one guise or another. It is simply a question of which side one takes and what approach one follows. And the more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity."
69
"So such an American troops presence in Korea in the South and Japan, total some 100,000 should stay there forever, even after unification of Korean peninsula."
67
"When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it."
65
"Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that."
59
"We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe."
59
"What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth."
58
"I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense."
57
"I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband."
57
"As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed."
57
"Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing."
57
"War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means."
56
"I am against any reconciliation with Israel."
56
"So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside."
56
"I think we can find a formula that would be to everyone's satisfaction, which would make it possible for Croatia to take some more steps and for Europe to accept us into its midst, and for the talks to start."
54
"Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended."
53
"I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians."
53
"Patriotism, that least discerning of pas."
53
"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy."
52
"Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
51
"Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy."
51
"After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate."
51
"Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism."
51
"The big nest was in Afghanistan, thats not quite cleared, then there are nests in the Philippines, there are nests in Indonesia, the Malaysians are clearing up their nests."
50
"We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay."
49
"In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector."
48
"America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit."
48
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