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Quotes About Politics

Liberals in blue states just think that they are on the right side of history, and anybody that disagrees with them has to be a troglodyte or a neanderthal.
~ Andrew Breitbart
Italy is only a geographical expression.
~ Klemens von Metternich
I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Then you have [Donald] Trump. So it could be the tightest, most hazardous race in political history and we can't afford to allow Trump to slither through. So that's where I'm at.
~ Tom Hayden
To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.
~ Kenneth Waltz
You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.
~ Winston Churchill
History shows that anything conducive to our national stability is good.
~ Jiang Zemin
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
~ Thomas Sowell
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
~ Edward Gibbon
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.
~ Learned Hand
This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history.
~ Helen Thomas
As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.
~ Mark McKinnon
Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.
~ Michelle Bachelet
All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.
~ John Pugsley
It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.
~ Shinzo Abe
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.
~ Anthony Gregory
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
~ Bill Moyers
Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.
~ Edward Gibbon
The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.
~ Ernst Rohm
Donald Trump's fought maybe the greatest political machine in the history of the world.
~ Eric Trump