Quotes About Politics

I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in Ukraine. I couldn't dislike him more.

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

Libya, more than anyone else's war, was Hillary Clinton's war. Barak Obama initially opposed it. Who was the person championing it? Hillary Clinton.

War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.