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Politics Quotes
"The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy."
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"In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy."
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"Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could."
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"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent."
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"It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world."
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"Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without."
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"The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does."
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"This position of this Northern party brought about the troubles of 1850, and the political excitement of 1854."
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"Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter."
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"Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one."
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"There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster."
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"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
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"Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002."
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"Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO."
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"Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers."
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"The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered."
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"Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!'"
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"Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish."
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"All politics are based on the indifference of the majority."
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"I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag."
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"In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn."
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"We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands."
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"But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America."
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"Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states."
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"When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda."
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"Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing."
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"As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada."
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"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
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"I am maintaining my schedule of commuting to Washington, D.C. each week from Oregon so that I can spend my weekends and days when we are not in session traveling to communities throughout my district."
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"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."
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"We've lost sight of our role in the region and our view of our colleagues in the region."
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"The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe."
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"Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics."
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"The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might."
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"When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy."
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"As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade."
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"As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study."
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