Quotes About Politics

The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.

For Liberal Democrats, the political choice between the hard Brexit menus offered by Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt might seem about as tempting as arsenic verses strychnine.

In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.

Around the world, including in the U.K., a version of Right-wing politics is growing that is based on dividing societies.

I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are a more individualistic culture. From the Boston Tea Party on, we've had too little faith in government.

I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.

President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.

Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.

I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.

Every anti-communist is a dog.

Demokratische Politik kann sich nicht in Moraldebatten erschöpfen, lebensfähig ist sie immer nur als Projekt.

There are still very few laws against thinking, although I am sure they're working hard on that in Washington.

He had an AM radio playing a conservative talk show. The host was making some very interesting statements about the president. I don't usually pay much attention to politics, but from what the man said, I had to believe that sometime in the recent past the laws regarding sedition must have changed.

I always had the faith that this country would elect those who knew best, who could follow the best course through any situation.

Make the fight, don't talk about it. You cannot imagine Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the volume of talk that flows around this place. Washington is like a barnyard full of braying mules Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and that includes most of my cabinet.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

He guessed that in Washington two conversations often went on simultaneously: the one you meant and the one you said out loud.

He was likened favorably to Rudolph Giuliani; unlike the former mayor, however, Grady had no political aspirations.

Remember what Lyndon Johnson said about J. Edgar Hoover? I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.

Doesn't ability to do the job come into the equation? Of course not, you fool, said Jimmy. This is politics.

But he knew that on the day of a general election, every candidate is convinced he is going to win, even the Liberals. Giles

Edgar Hoover? I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.