Quotes About Politics

Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.

Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.

It's east to start a war in any country

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

I'm not sure that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know that we're at war.

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.

He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.