Quotes About Politics

Principles are the pivot on which the hands of the political barometer turn." There was an instant shout of laughter.

Do not infer from this that either side is taken here; either that of the Emperor Nicholas against Poland, or that of Poland against the Emperor. It would be a foolish thing to slip political discussion into tales that are intended to amuse or interest

whatever rung of the social ladder they are perched, when any interest, no matter what, draws them from their own line of obedience and induces them to grasp at power. In their eyes, as in those of politicians, all means to an end are justifiable

Men and events count for nothing," said the Republican, following out his theory in spite of hiccoughs; "in politics, as in philosophy, there are only principles and ideas." "What an abomination! Then you would ruthlessly put your friends to death for a shibboleth?

France is the only country where some small phrase could bring about a great revolution.

Politics consist in giving the nation an impetus by creating an oligarchy embodying a fixed theory of government, and able to direct public affairs along a straight path, instead of allowing the country to be pulled in a thousand different directions, which is what has been happening for the last forty years in our beautiful France

Some persons may, perhaps, think that this declaration is somewhat autocratic and self-assertive. They will quarrel with the novelist for wanting to be an historian, and will call him to account for writing politics. I am simply fulfilling an obligation — that is my reply. The work I have undertaken will be as long as a history; I was compelled to explain the logic of it, hitherto unrevealed, and its principles and moral purpose.

We live in an age, madame, when nothing is sure," he said. "Even thrones rise and fall in France with fearful rapidity. Fifteen years have wreaked their will on a great empire, a monarchy, and a revolution. No one can now dare to count upon the future. You know my attachment to the cause of legitimacy. Suppose some catastrophe; would you not be glad to have a friend in the conquering party?" "Undoubtedly," she said, smiling.

To watch the governing power is a useful career, and, I may add, a very busy one.

In that there is nothing very grave or very gay; since the world was a world, governments have always found pens for sale, and never have they failed to buy them

But I think Hillary Clinton is one of the most amazing women of this time.

I never said all Democrats were saloon keepers. What I said was that all saloon keepers were Democrats.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark, all is deluge.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry Adams

People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.

Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.

I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.

The fatal combination of Republican craveness and Democratic cowardice wasn't having an awful effect solely on the U.S. economy. It was proving deeply scarring to the American psyche.

Politics, as he occasionally said, required three unchanging talents and no virtues. More politicians, he claimed, had been destroyed by virtue than by any other cause; and the talents he enumerated in this fashion. The first talent was the ability to choose the winning side. Failing that, the second talent was the ability to extricate oneself from the losing side. And the third talent was never to make an enemy.

Politicians were beginning to realize that if one cannot have the glory of successful war on foreign soil, one can do almost as well by creating a minor replica at home

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

What did the president know and when did he know it?

Why, then, did Boyle win? Shapin and Schaffer answer that Boyle won because he played the political game much better than Hobbes, and because Hobbes was swimming against the tide of history. They argue that the emergence of a new way of organizing science was an integral part of the emergence of the new social order of Restoration society

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.