Quotes About Politics

Unfortunately, the war has cost America greatly - politically - throughout the world.

I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.

Democracies don't go to war.

Donald Trump's going to start a war, he's going to start attacking immigrants or Muslims or Black Lives Matter or whatever. Because he's going to have to distract them from the no jobs.

I think the evangelicals think they're in a holy war now.

Whoever takes the decision of war, he is surely a stupid man!

Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested – or worse.

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.

You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords.

Look, this CPAC convention is increasingly the Star Wars bar scene of the conservative movement. All that's missing from that convention is a couple of Wookies.

I've called David Cameron worse things than joker....and a former Prime Minister Tony Blair is widely referred to as a war criminal.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.

The closer one gets to elections or wars, the further one gets from the truth.

Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes.

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

There isn't a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children!

I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.

Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.