Quotes About Politics

President Obama is currently on a week-long trip to Africa, where he will promote freedom, democracy, and economic opportunity. I guess he figured it hasn't worked here - so try it somewhere else.

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

It's an Afghanistan goat, so it can't stay here, or else it'll choke on the sweet air of freedom.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

George W. Bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.

The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

I will not stop fighting against Islam until I have achieved freedom for our country.

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

The government continues to erode our freedom.

The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.