Quotes About Politics

I meant that in politics there may be times when it's expedient to leave someone in power who's become incompetent, because in a web like that, there are ways to circumvent the damage that person might do. But

There is a saying about relationships in Washington: If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.

hand and working to unite the country, Nixon

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over. You've seen it a thousand times. We create a leader by locating one in the crowd who is standing up. This may well be because there are no chairs or because his knees are fused by arthritis. It doesn't matter. We designate this victim as a 'stand-up guy' by the simple expedient of sitting down around him." ARTURISM:

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

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Not only in private, but in politics, too.

The riddle that was making the rounds was: "What is the difference between Hitler and Chamberlain? Answer: Chamberlain takes his weekend in the country. Hitler takes his country in the weekend.

What occurs under the public gaze with so much pomp and ceremony is often the conclusion, or mere ratification, of what has taken place over weeks or months within the walls of such houses.

About him and his wife voting for different parties. A few years ago that would have been unthinkable." "No doubt." "Quite extraordinary the things that happen now. But that's what's meant by democracy, I suppose." Ogata-San gave a sigh. "These things we've learnt so eagerly from the Americans, they aren't always to the good." "No, indeed they're not.

I felt slightl superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.

I was...a journalist...though my typical beat was freelancing articles on Canadian politics, which never included any mention of demonic phenomena, though it might explain the rise of the neoconservatives.

Why is it that those who want to destroy everything good about their country are the quickest to waive the national flag?

In every country, those who were against war had been overruled. The Austrians had attacked Serbia when they might have held back; the Russians had mobilized instead of negotiating; the Germans had refused to attend an international conference to settle the issue; the French had been offered the chance to remain neutral and had spurned it; and now the British were about to join in when they might easily have remained on the sidelines.

You're a queer?" "That's exactly what I am. I didn't choose to be." After a while Woody put his arm around Chuck's shoulders. "Well, what the hell," he said. "At least you're not a Republican.

Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

This is amazing," Volodya said. "He's the President, yet he has to make excuses all the time for what he does!" "Something like that," Woody said. "We call it democracy.

there are no saints in politics, but imperfect people can make the world a better place.

She nodded. "They're counting again in California. Almost a million people voted, and the difference is about five thousand." "So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people." "That's democracy." Gus smiled. "A terrible way to run a country, but every other system is worse.

This was not a political party. It was an army. The purpose of the display, Lloyd figured, was to give them false authority. They wanted to look as if they had the right to close meetings and empty buildings, to burst into homes and offices and arrest people, to drag them to jails and camps and beat them up, interrogate and torture them, as the Brownshirts did in Germany under the Nazi regime so admired by Mosley and the Daily Mail's proprietor

A fool was just a fool, but a fool in the White House was the most dangerous person in the world.

Fascism is on the march," Lloyd began. "And it is dangerously attractive. It gives false hope to the unemployed. It wears a spurious patriotism, as the Fascists themselves wear imitation military uniforms.

If I've learned one thing in Spain, it's that we have to fight the Communists just as hard as the Fascists. They're both evil.

They carried Union Jack flags. Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?