Quotes About Politics

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Power is everywhere...because it comes from everywhere.

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

Judge for yourself who's still fighting for change and who got sick on power, because the person in the Miraflores has forgotten about the people of Venezuela.

The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

Democracy breaks the unity of the Romanian people, dividing it into parties, stirring it up, and so, disunited, exposing it to face the united block of the Judaic power.

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy