Quotes About Politics

A good citizen must follow the movement of public affairs, so as to cast his vote intelligently, and know whether the party in power deserved his vote.

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

Politicians will respect, rather than manipulate, reality only if the public cares about the truth and punishes politicians when it catches them in deliberate deception.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.

The wheel of democracy turns slowly.

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

You know what's interesting about Washington It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

They misunderestimated me.

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.

A political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation.

Let me now… warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.

Concerns about democracy's future are better directed elsewhere, John Paul argues, for if "there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity, then ideas and convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power.

but he has never played the demagogue.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.