Quotes About Politics

What interested Hitler was political power; economics could somehow take care of itself.

There are dark hints too that she was repelled by the masochistic inclinations of her lover, that this brutal tyrant in politics yearned to be enslaved by the woman he loved—a not uncommon urge in such men, according to the sexologists.

As the strife-ridden year of 1932 approached its end, Berlin was full of cabals, and of cabals within cabals.

The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic power of the spoken word, and that alone.

But the real basis of Germany's recovery was rearmament

And Treitschke outdoes Hegel in proclaiming war as the highest expression of man. To him "martial glory is the basis of all the political virtues; in the rich treasure of Germany's glories the Prussian military glory is a jewel as precious as the masterpieces of our poets and thinkers." He holds that "to play blindly with peace… has become the shame of the thought and morality of our age.

And the German people? On August 19, some 95 per cent of those who had registered went to the polls, and 90 per cent, more than thirty-eight million of them, voted approval of Hitler's usurpation of complete power. Only four and a quarter million Germans had the courage—or the desire—to vote "No.

Since Kemal's death, Turkey has been ruled by small minds, unsteady, weak men.

And then: "My own fate became known to me. I decided to go into politics."6 As it turned out, this was a fateful decision for Hitler and for the world.

argued that this was indeed Hitler's position. Strasser

Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.

As well as being a fascist, he's just not very clever

The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes.

THE DOWNSIDE OF PROVOKING disagreement is that it can curdle into bitter politics.

Why did Park Chung-Hee launch his political career in 1961 by lambasting Korean history? Why did he follow up two years later by saying, "Our five thousand years of history was a continuation of degeneration, crudity, and stagnation" and "We should set ablaze all our history that was more like a storehouse of evil"?

He said a political writer must be careful. He quoted Auden: A writer's politics are more dangerous to him than his cupidity. He said, Political sentimentality is as bad as any other kind. You have to acknowledge ambiguity, complexity. There is a kind of death that creeps into your prose when you're trying to illustrate a principle, no matter how worthy.

James I proved a capable ruler, which ensured his assassination by nobles.

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.

I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has.

It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

Todo mundo tem uma opinião, não é mesmo? Talvez seja isso o que está errado com este país.

Americans have viewed their former presidents almost like a fourth branch of government.