Quotes About Politics

For the first time in nearly twenty-five years, our country is having anything to do with the Chinamen, an it is an event far more important than any damn ping-pong game. It is diplomacy, and the future of the human race might be at stake. Do you understand what I am saying? I shrug my shoulders an nod my head, but something down in me sinkin' fast. I am jus' a po' ole idiot, an now I have got the whole human race to look after.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. But perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits

Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over thirty who is not a conservative has no brains.

If Independence is granted to India, power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air and water would be taxed in India.

Anyone who was not a liberal at 20 years of age had no heart, while anyone who was still a liberal at 40 had no head.

we must not let our standards be determined by the gentlemen of the oposition

He is no Socialist who will not sacrifice his Fatherland for the triumph of the Social Revolution.'—LENIN.

Trying to maintain good relations with a Communist is like wooing a crocodile. You do not know whether to tickle it under the chin or to beat it over the head. When it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up!

Mr. Attlee is a modest man with much to be modest about.

But you ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

Battles are the principal milestones in secular history. Modern opinion resents this uninspiring truth, and historians often treat the decisions of the field as incidents in the dramas of politics and diplomacy. But great battles, won or lost, change the entire course of events, create new standards of values, new moods, new atmospheres, in armies and in nations, to which all must conform.

a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth" fitted England very accurately during these years.

If food is scarce, why isn't Gandhi dead yet?

I have lost my heart! … Fascism has rendered a service to the entire world.

sufferance is the badge" of all who have to deal with the Kremlin.

The drastic application of economic sanctions in July 1941 brought to a head the internal crisis in Japanese politics.

I could never run for President of the United States. All that handshaking of people I didn't give a damn about would kill me. Ten minutes here. Ten minutes there…Not for me.

Sinn Fein,' 'Ourselves alone