Quotes About Politics

You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.

I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either.

The idea that fear can manipulate people and you can use fear in the media to get what you want is happening right now. I think it has a lot of relevance between 2017 and 70's.

The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.

People voted for Donald Trump. They want to repeal and replace ObamaCare. And we will.

Donald Trump is interesting to people. He's intriguing. But they want to see that Donald Trump in the White House. And he's getting there and he's going to pivot there.

Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to control.

Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

America has spent too long interfering oversees in too many other people's wars, and too much other stuff.

Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.'

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

I believe it is peace for our time.