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Quotes About Politics

Nazi Party gained power in Germany in 1933, they immediately embraced eugenics and forced sterilization, inspired by the U.S. movement and using it as a model.
~ David Beasley
supporting the Republican, Herbert Hoover.
~ David Beasley
Name calling may be acceptable in political circles but it has no place in the language of science, indeed what is happening in the annals of global warming smacks of Macarthyism complete with witch hunts.
~ DAVID BELLAMY
Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against those committed to procreation.
~ David Benatar
The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.
~ David Ben-Gurion
All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
~ James Barrett Scotty Reston
An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.
~ James Barrett Scotty Reston
Karl Marx disse que a religião é o ópio do povo, mas estava errado. A religião não é o ópio do povo, ela é o incendiário do povo! Nunca o mal é feito tão bem como quando é feito em nome da religião.
~ James BeauSeigneur
The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.
~ James Bovard
Attention Deficit Democracy produces the attitudes, ignorance and arrogance that pave the way to political collapse.
~ James Bovard
People have been taught to expect far more from government than from freedom.
~ James Bovard
Truth is a lagging indicator in politics.
~ James Bovard
The Night Watchman State has been replaced by Highway Robber States governments in which no asset, no contract, no domain is safe from the fleeting whim of politicians.
~ James Bovard
Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.
~ James Bovard
For scores of millions of Americans, Clinton's "caring" was more important than his lying.
~ James Bovard
The more that democracy is assumed to be inevitable, the more likely it will self-destruct.
~ James Bovard
Democracy unleashes the State in the name of the people.
~ James Bovard
Instead of revealing the will of the people, election results are often only a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions.
~ James Bovard
There are no harmless political lies about a war. The more such lies citizens tolerate, the more wars they will get.
~ James Bovard
A lie that is accepted by a sufficient number of ignorant voters becomes a political truth.
~ James Bovard
It is impossible to destroy all alleged enemies of freedom everywhere without also destroying freedom in the United States.
~ James Bovard
The principle of government supremacy is Clinton's clearest legacy.
~ James Bovard
Clinton exploited and expanded the dictatorial potential of the U.S. presidency.
~ James Bovard
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.
~ James Bovard