Quotes About Politics

David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a 'born leader', declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister. He wished that Britain had 'a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today'. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!

Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism—that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.

When the Labour benches cheered, the Tories were still plotting to get rid of him.

without Churchill, Hitler would almost certainly have won.

If ever you wanted a 12-cylinder, 6-litre entire combustible world consumer, that man is Churchill.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens — and then everybody disagrees.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees.

You cannot imagine how much the presidents of the entire world hate each other.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Political aspirants make too much of the people before election, and, if successful, too much of themselves after it. They use the people when they want to rise, as we treat a spirited horse when we want to mount him;--for a time we pat the animal upon the neck, and speak him softly; but once in the saddle, then come the whip and spur.

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

A majority of political representatives that convene at the Diet of Speyer in 1529 vote to undo the changes in religion and enforce the Edict of Worms. A minority of five evangelical princes and fourteen cities protest this vote—the origin of the term Protestants.

comes to my door. Mr. Mayor now. Got the suit, with the American flag in the lapel. Don't join the military; don't help out the little guy; don't take in your tired, your poor, your huddled masses—but if you wear a little flag, you're a patriot.

Politics and the press: two cherished institutions that spoke with tongues so forked they could double for fine dinnerware

Got the suit, with the American flag in the lapel. Don't join the military; don't help out the little guy; don't take in your tired, your poor, your huddled masses—but if you wear a little flag, you're a patriot.

You look like Donald Trump being sprayed with mace." "That's the poo-poo face. I

Parties Are for Weekends, Not Politics.

Arthur Bradford stood by the bus door, microphone in hand. Brother Chance was behind him, smiling in that the-camera-might-be-on-me, gee-isn't-the-candidate-brilliant mode of the political underling. On his right was Terence Edwards, Brenda's cousin. He too beamed with a smile about as natural as Joe Biden's hairline. Both of them were wearing those goofy political Styrofoam hats that looked like something a barbershop quartet might sport. The

Rusty's motto: Parties Are for Weekends, Not Politics.

Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry.

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

Calling a work of sufficient literary power either religious or secular is a political decision, not an aesthetic one.

A political reading of Shakespeare is bound to be less interesting than a Shakespearean reading of politics [.]

And Indiana's John Defrees expressed his belief that the inclusion of Winfield Scott of Virginia, Alexander Stephens of Georgia, and Edward Bates of Missouri "would do much to bring about a re-action among the people of all the Southern States except S. Carolina, which is insane beyond hope of cure."134 (Stephens himself later branded as "totally groundless" the "rumor" that he had ever discussed a cabinet appointment with the president-elect.