Quotes About Politics

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.

O'Connell lo miraba, decepcionado, pensando que los soviéticos empezaban con las purgas aun antes de la victoria.

Communism is a hatred of the poor for the rich—not simply an envy.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Woe to the statesman who does not seek in these times a case for war that still holds up after the war is over.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Only a completely ready state can permit the luxury of a liberal government.

make the House of Commons a cage for 500 parrots and apes, and complain of the decadence of oratory and of statecraft 1 And, indeed," he added with a grim chuckle, "the parrots and apes would more nearly resemble the politicians they would displace, than do the players of our day resemble the art which they affect to represent.

the transgressions of the Bush era, rather than being denounced as unworthy of our Constitution, have been institutionalized.

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.