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Politics Quotes
"It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within."
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"By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties."
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"I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics."
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"If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all."
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"NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves."
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"If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions."
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"France freed from that monster Bonaparte must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one and the first choice of all not under those ties."
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"Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S."
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"Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage."
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"Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction."
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"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be."
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"It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them."
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"Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks."
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"Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes."
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"The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world."
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"The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot."
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"The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice."
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"The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side."
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"The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself."
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"That the social life of human beings is subject to definite limitations; that it is governed by a set of laws that are comparable with those of Nature; these are notions that are unknown to the etatist. For the etatist, everything is a question of Macht - power, force, might. And his conception of Macht is crudely materialistic."
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"It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world."
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"Increasingly, Americans don't own America."
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"We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell."
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"I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country."
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"War is ruthless murder, yet it is justifiable only when a country is defending its turf from outside intruders. To convince soldiers to attack another country for no other reason than greed or strategic positioning requires creativity. And most of the time, soldiers do not really know whether they are on the side of the attackers or the defenders. This is where people misunderstand war. When you attack another country for its resources, you are the pirate. But when you protect your country from the pirates, you are the hero."
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"As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here."
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"Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They're organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations."
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"Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin."
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"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together."
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"Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for."
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"A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense held good in everyday life and in certain exact sciences, but could be disregarded by the politician, the historian, and the sociologist. Already there are countless people who would think it scandalous to falsify a scientific text-book, but would see nothing wrong in falsifying an historical fact."
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"In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution."
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"The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice."
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"I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest."
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"I'm a results-oriented person and my Senate record shows that."
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"But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things."
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"I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible."
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"By now, they rank people by income level or wages roughly the same: The bottom seventy per cent or so are virtually disenfranchised; they have almost no influence on policy, and as you move up the scale you get more influence. At the very top, you basically run the show."
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"The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing. It is like saying that because a man can only walk about on two legs, therefore he never walks about except to buy shoes and stockings."
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