Quotes About Politics

For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being "socialists". Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them.

We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and the American struggle in Iraq. These events swung American public opinion in our favor

He hadn't killed nearly as many people as I had. But then again, he hadn't had my advantage, which was the full cooperation of our Government.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals.

Frankly I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.

A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.

Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

I'll tell you what, with Hillary Clinton, I said be at my wedding and she came to my wedding. You know why? She didn't have a choice...

The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.