Quotes About Politics

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

The philosopher did not have a practical agenda. That was implicit in his concern for the general, not the particular. This made philosophical politics look attractively different from the self-seeking squabbling of party political debate. On the other hand, it made philosophical religion look, to some at least, reprehensibly theoretical and 'cold'.

When CEOs become vampires, Congress outlaws stakes.

The Americans love to play diplomacy by making scares. It's a crude method.

How do you English Socialists believe in Empire like that?' Steele said to Holmes. 'Empire is inimical to Democracy and it has no right to exist in a free world.

It's easy these days to buy a nation, but it's quite difficult to take it by force.

Religious fanaticism is simply good politics in the middle-eastern countries.

Mexican right-wing talk radio wants a fence built on their southern border to keep out those damned Hondurans and Salvadorans and Guatemalans. I heard a radio host in Guadalajara decry these "aliens." It seems Hondurans want to take Mexican jobs. Want to steal health care, get an education. They don't share the proper language, and they carry disease and lower the standard of living and want to steal social security benefits. Rushito Limbortinez in the house!

Las instituciones de seguridad se han deteriorado por los efectos combinados del dinero de los traficantes, la ausencia de una ética de servicio a la ciudadanía y la irresponsabilidad política de partidos y gobernantes pasados y presentes.

El tráfico de drogas en México nació subordinado a la política desde los tiempos de la Revolución, se reforzó en el Estado posrevolucionario dominado por el partido de Estado (PNR-PRM-PRI) y así continuó durante siete décadas.

Uno de los grandes problemas de México es un nacionalismo llevado hasta el extremo que delata un profundo complejo de inferioridad.

In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.

If the communist party under the leadership of Joma Sison insists on being too radical, too incorrigible, they will fail. They will, as the saying goes, "die on the vine." They will wither and be forgotten. The people themselves will reject them. They should instead abide by the people's interest...

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

Linder looks less like a politician than a member of a fascistically inclined boy band.

in every election their votes cancel each other, and they are as no one.

Although she didn't have the plumbing, she deluded herself that she was the modern W.C. (about Margaret Thatcher, M.T.)

L'Église espagnole est devenue la Putain des militaires épurateurs.

My wife is a diplomate. If ever I am president of the United States—which may Heaven forbid,—she shall be secretary of State. She never argues; but she always carries her point.

Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War. In the opinion of many people it seemed as if the Allies were fighting against a combination composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Mr. Shaw.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.