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Politics Quotes
"It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail."
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"We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi."
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"If Russia rises, it means that the USA falls down."
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"The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare."
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"Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege."
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"Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything."
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"I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics."
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"We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest."
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"I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress."
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"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act."
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"I for one believe that we absolutely need an improved guest worker program, one that holds immigrants and employers accountable and yet still enables us to get a crop out of the ground in south Georgia."
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"Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized."
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"We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances."
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"The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before."
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"America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus."
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"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."
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"My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you."
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"When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers."
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"We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism."
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"One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation."
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"If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?"
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"We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years."
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"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
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"If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep."
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"I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."
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"With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land."
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"And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election."
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"In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important."
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"I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq."
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"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'."
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"I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not."
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"It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today."
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"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship."
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"But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class."
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