Quotes About Politics

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term.

Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.

We're Democrats [with my father]. So, of course he would [support me]. Absolutely.

As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.

When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it was 'Kean's son to run for Congress.'

Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents.

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.

My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, and philosophy, so I became interested in the protest aspect of Latin American art.

Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.