Quotes About Politics

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

Artificially to incite hatred is not only supererogatory in politics and foreign relations, it is also positively harmful.

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

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

History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.

Nesta terra, só os políticos podem dormir e acordar de bom humor.

congressman was a hog that could understand only a blow on the snout.

There's no such thing as a benevolent leader. ... Those communists don't care about you. They don't care about anybody.

You can't fix Korea. Not even a hundred of you or a hundred of me can fix Korea. The Japs are out and now Russia, China, and America are fighting over our shitty little country.

Hansu had said that the leftists were "a bunch of whiners" and the rightists were "plain stupid.

The wealthy Japanese have already sent their families to the country. They've already converted their cash into gold. The rich do not care about politics; they will say anything to save their skin. You're not rich, but you're smart, and I'm telling you that you have to leave today.

I like to think of myself as the Rod Blagojevich of television.

I also did that thing that corrupt politicians do where I hired all my friends to work with me, so that's very nice as well. I like to think of myself as the Rod Blagojevich of television.

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

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Statul, numit de toate rasele Lew-Yathan, are întotdeauna în frunte, ales de întreaga obÅŸte, pe cel mai tic?los, mai corupt ÅŸi mai viclean cet??ean. Teoria spune c?, focalizând ura tuturor, ca o lentil?, suveranul poate produce o raz? nimicitoare în confruntarea cu inamicul.

Christ has not come with a blueprint for political arrangements; many kinds of political arrangements are compatible with the Christian faith, from monarchy to democracy. But in a pluralistic context, Christ's command "in everything do to others as you would have them do to you" (Matt. 7:12) entails that Christians grant to other religious communities the same religious and political freedoms that they claim for themselves.

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.

Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.