Quotes About Politics

A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let's remember that, despite being a poor country, India's democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

Every austerity measure that Cameron and George Osborne make is being presented in Scotland as the English starving us.

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Separation of church and state should never mean separation of God and right.

There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state.

You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.

In the early days of the republic, the secretary of state was the heir apparent to the president. Presidents could easily hand-pick their party's next candidate. The party caucuses formally selected the candidates, but presidents guided the process.

I am convinced that the Obama administration and Clinton Dynasty would rather hail the Communist Manifesto than the Declaration of Independence this Fourth of July. And there's more than enough proof to show how they have been slow-cooking our Founders' republic into a red-star state like China.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

I honestly don't know what criteria makes someone right-wing or left-wing anymore. The boundaries of those definitions seem to be in a state of flux. I'm not socialist, I know that.

I'm a liberal Democrat, and I state that proudly.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

Aska is going to create history and show the way to the entire country by sending a member of women SHG to Parliament and four women members to the state assembly.