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Politics Quotes
"Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state."
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"I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country."
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"I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for."
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"Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form."
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"If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong."
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"The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics."
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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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"We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor."
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"You're only lonely if you're not there for you."
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"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."
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"I am looking forward to the departure of the corrupt Obama administration in 2017."
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"George Bush is trying to play it both ways."
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"Man does not necessarily begin with despotism because he is barbarous, but very often finds his way to despotism because he is civilised. He finds it because he is experienced; or, what is often much the same thing, because he is exhausted."
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"In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well."
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"The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won."
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"I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded."
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"It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty.The compromise eventually made was one of the most interesting and even curious cases in history. It was decided to do everything that had ever been denounced in Socialism, and nothing that had ever been desired in it, we proceeded to prove that it was possible to sacrifice liberty without gaining equality.In short, people decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad."
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"Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people, anyway. For years I've regarded his very existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad."
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"We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure."
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"While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country."
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"In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural."
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"It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads."
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"Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't."
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"I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign."
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"I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it."
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"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."
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"U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter."
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"As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending."
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"And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation."
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"When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."
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"Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience."
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"Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs."
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"Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy."
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"I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label."
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"A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics."
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"In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested."
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"I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute."
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"He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it."
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"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
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"George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech."
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"War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules."
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"Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions."
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"Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom."
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"Liberalism is Rationalism in politics."
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"The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit."
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