Quotes About Politics

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues.

Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.

Th' prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th people. Th' vice-prisidincy is th' next highest an' the lowest. It isn't a crime exactly. Ye can't be sint to jail f r it, but it's a kind iv a disgrace.

In America, any boy may become president, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways-in science, in politics, in every bold intention. It is part of our collective lives, entwining our past and our future ... a particularly rewarding aspect of life itself.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other.

The definition of insanity is conservatives voting Republican over and over again and expecting different results.

To Lady Bird Johnson Not all the soldiers were in Vietnam. This one was in the White House.

America 2020 is a bad dream — with woke citizens and an asleep government

George W. Bush will protect your unborn fetus then send your grown child to die in war.

Two of the most energetic pro-lifers of all time were Hitler and Stalin — who immediately upon taking power criminalized previously legal abortions. Mussolini, Ceau?escu, and countless other nationalist dictators and tyrants have done likewise. Of course, this is not by itself a pro-choice argument, but it does alert us to the possibility that being against abortion may not always be part of a deep commitment to human life.

Republicans are against abortion until their daughters need one, Democrats are for abortion until their daughter wants one.

Now, to demonstrate the grandeur of modern progress, we have a poor, miserable, disconnected populace with nothing but American films, politics, and empty vacations to satisfy the ever-present human need of living in harmony with the universal spiritual forces underlying nature and all phenomena.

The blindness of Winston Churchill turned him into a Zionist dupe and trapped him into triggering WWII, with its millions of victims. It is to be regretted that some right-wingers are following his path by supporting Zionism and pushing for WWIII.

No party in the US can hope to rule without the support of Jewish money and Jewish power in the media and academia.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

In Coetzee's eyes, we human beings will never abandon politics because politics is too convenient and too attractive as a theatre in which to give play to our baser emotions.

There is one faction that believes George Bush is a simpleton with the brain capacity of plankton, and that is why we are in the mess we're in. Then there's another faction that believes George Bush is not only smarter than plankton, but that he is a diabolical mastermind, possibly even the spawn of Satan himself, and that is why we are in the mess we're in.

Communism, Marxism, Socialism, Fascism." Roarke jerked his shoulders. "Democracy, republic, monarchy. One is the same as the other to them. It's power, it's glory. It's revolution for the sake of it. Politics, religion, for some it remains their own narrow and personal view." "Conquer and rule?" Eve wondered.

If you ask me, East Washington's been paranoid since the terrorist hit." Feeney sneered into the camera. "Couple dozen legislators get whacked, and they never forget it.

when you have politics, you have corruption." "Possibly.