Quotes About Politics

When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking. In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God.

A bribed man can only hate his briber. When this man died the nation rang with praise and, just beneath, with gladness that he was dead.

In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God.

Civil war is supposed to be the bitterest of wars, and surely family politics are the most vehement and venomous. I can discuss politics coldly and analytically with strangers. That was not possible with my sisters. We ended each session panting and spent with rage. On no point was there any compromise. No quarter was asked or given.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson – the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

There's no medical expense can break us now. They called LBJ every name in the book but believe me he did a lot of good for the little man. Wherever he went wrong, it was his big heart betrayed him. These pretty boys in the sky right now, Nixon'll hog the credit but it was the Democrats put 'em there, it's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson—the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

this country since 1865 has an unenviable record for political violence. Four presidents, plus the attempts on Truman and both Roosevelts—as you know, Teddy was actually wounded, in his unsuccessful campaign in 1912—not to mention Huey Long. There isn't a country west of the Balkans with any kind of the same record. The Prime Ministers of England go everywhere with a single bodyguard.

One hundred thirty years after Abe Lincoln, re Republicans have got the anti-black vote and it's bigger than any Democratic Presidential candidate can cope with.

British Columbia has been described as a banana republic, only with bigger bananas

For all their talk of democracy, the conquerors worked hard to engineer consensus; and on many critical issues, they made clear that the better part of political wisdom was silence and conformism. So well did they succeed in reinforcing this consciousness that after they left, and time passed, many non-Japanese including Americans came to regard such attitudes as peculiarly Japanese.

but my abortion politics are simple. If you can't love your child, don't have it, because it will grow up and kill me.

All ideology can be embraced if the leader dresses well.

Listen to your political enemies, especially the smart ones, and then figure out a way to make them laugh.

She now represents the Western United States, thus proving politics is even more accepting of the strange, unusual, and mostly useless than the music industry.

Jesus Christ is my savior, not the government.

Of course! Jeb Bush! America is hungry for another leader from that talented family!

I think it's very troubling to see the reality of where the American political establishment is going - into this big tent, which is one happy Demo-Republican family.

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

All you need to know about Donald Trump is he loves his family and he loves this country. And he's going to be a great president of the United States.

I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.

We've got a big happy, one corporate family now uniting the corporate Democrats and the corporate Republicans.