Quotes About Politics

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like détente when there's a good English phrase for it — cold war.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world — no ideals.

The British went on fighting like lions against the Germans, the Italians, and the Japanese, but they couldn't or wouldn't stand up to the Arabs at all – though much of the Arab world was openly pro-Nazi.

So long as we have more politicians than statesmen, we shall have problems.

Other nations merely change governments as a lady changes dancing partners: Canada contrives to fall in a dead faint every time the music stops.

In China, the only creatures that can really block forward momentum are the leaders of the Communist Party. Zhu Rongji made his career by taming inflation, which reached an annual rate of 21.7 percent in 1994.

If your politics puts you at the unorthodox end of the spectrum, you can remind the Party that Confucius also talked about the Mandate of Heaven, the concept that the people could overthrow unjust rulers.

How many people does the Communist Party think it takes to change a lightbulb in China? About 63.5 million, the number of its members

China will make real progress in the fight against corruption only when prosecution and conviction are separated from politics.

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen," said British politician Enoch Powell.

Well, I was not scared of Edwina Currie – a bully who shagged the prime minister.

I was not scared of Edwina Currie - a bully who shagged the prime minister. It was music to my ears when she finally got kicked out. The silly cow.

Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to tame that democracy.

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.

If I was a President and wanted something I would claim I didn't want it. Congress has not given any President anything he wanted in the last 10 years. Be against anything and then he is sure to get it.

Confucius perspired out more knowledge than the U.S. Senate has vocalized out in the last 50 years.

History in general only informs us what bad government is.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

No os habéis preocupado jamás por saber lo que será de vosotros cuando los mismos consorcios se fusionen en el trust de los trusts, en una organización a un tiempo social, económica y política.

Lobby—a peculiar institution for bribing, bulldozing, and corrupting the legislators who were supposed to represent the people's interests.

The term congressional hearing is an oxymoron. No congressional hearing is ever called to gather information. Rather, it is an exercise designed strictly for posturing, by people who have already made up their minds, looking for ammunition to support their positions.

on free commerce, open communication, shared knowledge, secular politics, religious coexistence, international law, and diplomatic immunity.

Christians fought everyone, but mostly themselves, as bishops attacked bishops, popes excommunicated kings, kings created antipopes.

Genghis Khan sought to further undermine his enemies by exploiting any internal social turmoil or rift he could identify. In