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Politics Quotes
"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."
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"I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America."
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"What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president."
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"We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class."
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"The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations."
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"America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago."
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"I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive."
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"Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will."
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"There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished."
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"John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign."
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"How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me."
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"Statism is an unnatural disaster."
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"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."
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"Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that."
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"When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch... such people, in its role as a monarch, not being controlled by law, aims at sole power and becomes like a master."
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"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
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"The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."
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"England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases."
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"They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the pretext of a revolution to involve us in any kind of war, said Jardinet."
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"The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence."
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"As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further."
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"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt."
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"Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics."
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"The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere."
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"The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming."
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"The politics of judges is getting to be red hot."
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"Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?"
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"If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations."
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"For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years."
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"Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there."
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"Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days."
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"We're only one of a few states that have maintained our Triple-A bond rating from the major rating agencies."
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"I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks."
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