Quotes About Politics

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.

From the perspective of Bismarck, conditioned as he was by power politics, all that the new empire required was "the biggest possible army, a military commander, a guiding hand, enough money, and that's it.

the result will be the expansion of government.

While the Marxists were promising a chicken in every pot, the New Dealers were winning elections by pushing for a house on every lot. In

All government is an ugly necessity.

Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution

friends of the king can no longer be grip hands with friends of the Commons.

When she told me it was her favorite, it suggested to me strange and wonderful things about her character that I had not guessed, dark places that I might like to visit. People tell boring lies about politics, God, and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

People tell boring lies about politics, God, and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? —

People tell boring lies about politics, God and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question: What is your favourite book?

I found I had a knack for the combination of discipline, communication, psychology, politics, stagecraft, and creativity that planning a wedding requires.

People tell boring lies about politics

A man puts on a suit and a tie and an American flag pin, and that's the end of the story. He is a politician. A female politician's appearance is always a disputed territory, a matter of discussion.

Se si parla di politica, di Dio o dell'amore, la gente mente e lo fa pure in modo noioso.Tutto ciò che ti serve sapere di una persona lo capisci dalla sua risposta alla domanda: "Qual è il tuo libro preferito?

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away.

Here was a dyed-in-the-brine Cape Cod, Massachusetts, man who dropped into New York State on a carpetbag and used his slain brother's gilded connections to help win a Senate seat.

There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.

If con is the opposite of pro, and progress is good, what is Congress?

The United States Constitution turned 225 years old in 2012. It is the central document of American history and politics. From all sides of the political spectrum, from ranks of society low and high, it is ceaselessly venerated, admired, and invoked. But all too seldom is it read. It sometimes seems that Americans worship the Constitution so deeply that they find its actual text a distraction.

Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly.

To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.