top of page
.png){kind=small}
Politics Quotes
"The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin."
38
"Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake."
38
"The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations."
38
"I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in a Clinton candidacy or whether she really is something unique and has something to offer apart from her husband."
38
"I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come."
38
"As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead."
38
"I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive."
38
"Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning."
38
"And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq."
38
"With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon."
38
"Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy"."
38
"I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads."
38
"As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?"
38
"The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings."
38
"The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller."
38
"We have a plan that creates universal access programs at the state level which allows folks to access insurance if they're denied by their insurer."
38
"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."
38
"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."
38
"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."
38
"Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?"
38
"The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence."
38
"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."
38
"I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics."
38
"Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality."
38
"I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat."
38
"Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
38
"Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress."
38
"We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon."
38
"Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation."
38
"And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election."
38
"Politics is clueless; I can claim -"I am a politician" only because I am not."
38
"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."
38
"Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion."
38
"Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia."
38
"I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run."
38
"To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority."
38
"That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today."
37
bottom of page