Quotes About Politics

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

Socialism is a dead horse.

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

The Bush administration is a paragon of wisdom.

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise.

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

You have to plant doubt […] It's like planting a seed that takes time to germinate. It might look like nothing is happening, but then suddenly the doubt will flower into some kind of action […] Patience is what is needed. People need to hear the truth, not just once but again and again. That's what the politics of change is all about, patience and repetition, until the truth sinks in.

Hate is nothing, even in politics, hate is only temper and unhappiness; it's an accident. It is stupid and unkind to let it overtake one.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

The year 2020 will mark the end of the U.S. presidency and the executive branch of the government. Let's just say the American public will finally be fed up by then and leave it at that.

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

a better reading of history must bring home the truth that the basic factor in human affairs is not politics, but race.

The general point of view may be described as classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion.