Quotes About Politics

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

No nation has friends only interests.

He has said you can be a capitalist, and be a good person, or be a communist, and be good. What you can't be is a terrorist and a good person.

I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost.

Sarah Palin had a big op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, and she said she's against death panels. And I thought, 'Really? She's the one who pulled the plug on the McCain campaign.'

I deplore the death and destruction she [Hillary Clinton] caused-stupidity.

I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.

Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Many Democrats are sincere in their desire to help others.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

My ardent desire is... to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.

I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.

A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.

The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Some countries of Europe have to free themselves from the US Empire. They are not going to frighten us because we are a people with dignity and sovereignty.

I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.