Quotes About Politics

Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets.

We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern.

Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.

I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

Weapons of war have no place on our streets.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States.

Hillary [Clinton] is - you know, she's every bit as much scary on war as Donald Trump is.

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

No deals with the Tories; it's war.

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war.

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

A political war can be fought from anywhere.