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Politics Quotes
"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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"Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families."
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"Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale."
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"Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed."
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"We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them."
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"They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that."
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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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"We could have a budget that brings Americans together."
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"Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again."
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"War, money and greed that is the modern heinous Trinity, and they are inseparable these days."
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"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors."
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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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"Politics is clueless; I can claim -"I am a politician" only because I am not."
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"The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent."
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"A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world."
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"Democracy is a poor system, the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method."
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"I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university."
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"Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there."
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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 people take a very low view of politicians, but that is exactly how they conduct their social interactions daily."
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"This is my first term. I was told it was going to be an exciting term, and a lot of things would be done, and I cannot think about something more exciting than save Social Security."
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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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"And when memory failed and written records were falsified-when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested."
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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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"It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out."
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"And shall I still be allowed to wear ribbons in my mane?" asked Mollie."Comrade," said Snowball, "those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?"Mollie agreed, but she did not sound very convinced."
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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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"The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don't mean merely that controversies are acrimonious. They ought to be that when they are on serious subjects. I mean that almost nobody seems to feel that an opponent deserves a fair hearing or that the objective truth matters as long as you can score a neat debating point."
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"Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in."
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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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"Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset."
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"We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation."
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"Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia."
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"I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals."
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