Quotes About Politics

The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.

The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.

I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.

Abortion is not an issue with the American people. It is a figment of your imagination if you think that this is an issue that is talked about a lot.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

Independence is a political concept, not a biological concept.

Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence Party] or an even further-right party.

The States acceded to the Union.

I fail to find even one "Netaji" among the several thousand "Netas" of today. India needs our sacrifices once more and my entire life is and will remain dedicated to the service of my country.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

Diplomacy: lying in state.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.