Quotes About Politics

Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

President Bush listed his income as $822,000. You know what John Kerry calls someone who earns $822,000? Not even worth dating.

When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand.

The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death...

If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

The people are not always well-informed, but is better that they have misconceptions that make them restless than that they be lethargic-for lethargy in the people means death for republics.

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you - in places where winning means survival and defeat means death - and that man is John McCain

And how long will the American people stand for this treachery perpetrated by their elected president? How long will Americans remain asleep while their cherished Constitution is torn to shreds by the fascist fifth column of the Republican right marching under the sign of the cross and the flag?

And who's next, Mr. and Mrs. America, now that the Bill of Rights is no longer the law of the land and the racial haters are running the show?

Cuando esto haya terminado ese joven lamentará no sólo haberse metido en política, sino también aprendido a volar— dijo Roosevelt cuando se enteró que había sido nombrado como candidato republicano a las próximas elecciones en las que el sería el candidato demócrata

Lindbergh can deal with Hitler, they said, Hitler respects him because he's Lindbergh. Mussolini and Hirohito respect him because he's Lindbergh.

Ideological tyranny. It's the disease of the century. The ideology institutionalizes the pathology.

And yet this stagnation is a big reason why I am an optimistic skeptic. We know that in so much of what people want to predict—politics, economics, finance, business, technology, daily life—predictability exists, to some degree, in some circumstances. But there is so much else we do not know.

C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

Be careful," warned Nietzsche, "lest in fighting the dragon you become the dragon." I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace. C. S. Lewis once said that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.