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Politics Quotes
"Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?"
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"Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction."
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"The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple."
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"And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet."
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"Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales."
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"When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor."
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"The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are."
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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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"Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream."
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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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"But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes."
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"Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to."
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"I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval."
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"America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus."
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"When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."
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"A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation."
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"Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics."
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"In politics the choice is constantly between two evils."
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"POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
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"All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected."
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"History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community."
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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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"Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions."
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"The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction."
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"What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld."
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"Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison."
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"Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life."
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"Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined."
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"I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do."
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"House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it."
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"The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia."
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"I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second."
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"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."
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"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia."
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"I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes."
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"And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition."
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"May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!"
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"That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution."
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