Quotes About Politics

Communism is a Russian autocracy turned upside down.

For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.

Party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

Yale was notorious for its politics. Afterwards, one fierce Loyalist, Thomas Jones, recalled bitterly of his alma mater that it was nothing but "a nursery of sedition, of faction, and republicanism," while General Thomas Gage, commander of the British forces in North America, branded the place "a seminary of democracy" full of "pretended patriots.

This group was composed almost entirely of high-performing urban professionals—doctors, lawyers, computer programmers, successful artists and writers, professors—who went to normal jobs by day but returned in the evening to a very different and highly secretive world built around fellowship, polygamous sex, radical politics, and political theater.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

2009: e-mails obtained via the Freedom of Information Act revealed that White House Associate Director of Public Engagement was arranging an NEA-hosted telephone conference with tax-supported artists to encourage the creation of propaganda art to generate public support for President Obama's political agendas.

TRUTH is the true victim today. Truth has become the politically incorrect "No-No" born from fear of government, school peer and/or family pressures and penalties, or just plain evasion, lying, cheating, and/or corruption-laden behavior on personal and business levels.

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

The three branches of government are the Presidency, the House, and the Senate.

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Experience teaches that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is usually when it begins to reform itself.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

In America, there are no noblemen or men of letters, and the people distrust the wealthy. Lawyers therefore constitute the superior political class and the most intellectual segment of society.

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.