Quotes About Politics

Ein gespaltenes Volk ist ein lenkbares Volk. Es sucht nach Feinden und einem Führer.

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

Joe Biden's been pimping out his son for years.

the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

If the left wing was to rule, the result would be misery, terror and death, like it happens in every place where communism rules.

I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.

By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.

We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and - in contrast with Islamic countries - respect for religious and political rights, a system that has as its value understanding of diversity and tolerance ... The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago.

We all value social relationships, but are there differences in what each sex values about other people? Women tend to value the development of altruistic, reciprocal relationships. Such relationships require good empathizing skills. In contrast, men tend to value power, politics, and competition. This pattern is found across widely different cultures and historical periods, and is even found among chimpanzees.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Conserving national resources was a sensible wish; it became a prescient necessity when the US entered the war six years later. But the desire to make the country great again may have appeared a tired political slogan even then. The belief of a better past is clearly a compelling one, but whether the past was better in the days of Taylor and Roosevelt in 1911 or in the mind of Donald Trump in 2016 is difficult to say.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

In the US, for instance, a former member of Congress will lobby Congress for whatever company or country will pay him; meanwhile in a poor country, a politician pockets an illegal bribe.

We are in the midst of a global battery arms race where, at present, the US is a bystander

In a colossal bureaucracy run like a nepotistic village, Stalin showed himself a master of personal politics.180 He was the patron of these brutal tendencies but also their personification: he was right when he blasphemously declared in 1929 that 'the Party has made me in its own image'. He and the Party had

Ideology must be our foundation as it was for the Bolsheviks, but the new archives show that the personalities and patronage of a minuscule oligarchy were the essence of politics under Lenin and Stalin, as they were under the Romanov emperors—and just as they are today under the 'managed democracy' of twenty-first-century Russia.

Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.

The only man to shake hands with Lenin, Hitler, Himmler, Göring, Roosevelt and Churchill, Molotov was Stalin's closest ally. Nicknamed "Stone-Arse" for his indefatigable work rate, Molotov liked to correct people ponderously and tell

There are two lines here: one holds a course for victory of revolution…the other doesn't believe in revolution and counts merely on staying as an opposition…

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Stalin impressed Trotsky, whose description reveals why he lost their struggle for power. 'Stalin was very valuable behind the scenes,' he wrote. 'He did have the knack of convincing the average run

obtain one's objective.' As Stalin later told Molotov, 'Truth is protected by a battalion of lies.

We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.