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Politics Quotes
"All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now."
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"When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done."
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"Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy."
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"The better organized the state, the duller its humanity."
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"If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you."
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"Don't divide the world into "them" and "us." Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours."
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"The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression."
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"Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably."
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"Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one."
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"The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy."
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"Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us."
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"In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy."
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"Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state."
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"Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right."
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"How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski."
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"It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe."
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"The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning."
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"Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives."
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"If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement."
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"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."
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"All government - indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter."
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"Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected."
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"The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years."
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"More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators."
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"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."
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"The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform."
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"It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another."
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"Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns."
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"Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely."
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"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
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"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."
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"I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary."
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"Many people take a very low view of politicians, but that is exactly how they conduct their social interactions daily."
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"There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic."
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"Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children."
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"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them."
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"She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them."
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