Quotes About Politics

Politics don't stop love. He will say to her: "You are as beautiful as our new hydro-electric plant." And she will reply: "Comrade, how progressive of you.

The difference between our democracy and a dictatorship is that we get to choose the person who is going to screw us.

Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is left with his foot stuck in the mud from all of the Republicans with the way he's treated. We have moved in the right direction, and there have been improvements, but we still have a long ways to go in the country.

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Empire abroad entails tyranny at home

The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.

Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.

Madame Politics is like Venus: they whom she decoys into her castle perish.

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

everyone ought to be interested in politics. If we all had been, then maybe the Nazis wouldn't have got their hands on power;

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Deus é bom em salvar almas, mas o temos mantido fora de nossas grandes decisões sobre educação, ciência, política, etc. (p. 32)

Bitler, politikan?n önemli bir parças? olmu?tur. ?sveç Hurdenburg'da, Orta Ça?'daki belediye ba?kan? seçimi anlat?l?r: "Adaylar masan?n etraf?na oturur, ba?lar?n? e?ip sakallar?n? masaya koyarlar. Sonra bir bit masan?n ortas?na konur ve hangisinin sakal?na giderse o, s?radaki y?l için belediye ba?kan? seçilir.

Monroe's presidency made poor men rich, turned political allies into friends, and united a divided people as no president had done since Washington.

Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservative to anarchist—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Orwell, of course: Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservative to anarchist—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.

On the subject of "personal beauty," for example, Lincoln merrily confided he felt fortunate that "'the women couldn't vote,' otherwise the monstrous portraits of him which had been circulated during the canvas by friends as well as by foes would surely defeat him.