Quotes About Politics

If the clicker became useless in grown men's hands, no games to watch, no highlights shown, ESPN left with only test patterns and re-runs of Rudy, wouldn't the indignation level be a whole lot higher? If sports, all sports, all levels, were shut down, wouldn't the big clock be ticking a lot louder? Wouldn't John Boehner be calling the President and vice versa? Wouldn't Ted Cruz have to shut up in a hurry?

A wise politician, when asked if he were for or against Prohibition, answered: If by alcohol, you mean the dangerous drink which destroys families, than I am fully for Prohibition. But if, by alcohol, you mean noble drink which promotes good fellowship and makes every meal a pleasure, then I am against it.

If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it's Big Business -- Or two words Big Business." -- ("President"(!)) Donald Trump

The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

If you don't care about something, one way to demonstrate your feelings is to say the word and then repeat the word with the letters S-C-H-M replacing the first letters. Somebody who didn't care about dentists, for instance could say 'Dentist, schmentists.

What chance did I stand between the Communists on one side and the Establishment on the other

And that's all you would have got under the American or British system of first-past-the-post,' said Lottie. 'It was proportional representation that inflated your gains.

Doesn't he know that all the world's governments tell lies all day every day, and show no sign of contrition even when they are caught out in such untruths?

When they ask me to become president of the United States I'm going to say, "Except for Washington D.C.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

Politicians tend only to like democracy when it is to their personal advantage (From LONE WOLF, p.50)

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.

Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.

Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain.

Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course toward Socialism.

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

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

The Democratic Convention is $27 million in debt. They had to cancel the kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. A speedway is the perfect place for the Democratic Convention. You go around in circles, turn left every few seconds, and you end up right where you started.