Quotes About Politics

I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.

The issues of political nature should be solved in any country, including in Syria, primarily by its people.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

The USA is a beautiful country...when you take the corrupt corporations and their government minions out of the equation.

Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.

Sometimes nature is even crueller than politics.

Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

I love my country, not my government.

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.

Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

If I want to transform patriotism then I do not proceed in the slightest against the fine fact of the nation but against the mixing up of the nation and the state.

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.