Quotes About Politics

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

It Can't Happen Here.

Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

realized that this country has gone so flabby that any gang daring enough and unscrupulous enough, and smart enough not to seem illegal, can grab hold of the entire government and have all the power and applause and salutes, all the money and palaces and willin' women they want.

Daily we preach the phrase United nations and daily we advance our war weapons. What a shame.

First time in history, soon or later we will see an African war.

Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

Politicians neither love nor hate.

I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I love black people even more.

Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.

Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.