Quotes About Politics

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power.

Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.

I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020.

Without allegiance to the Constitution it doesn't matter one hill of beans which party is in power!

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

The Germans are indeed the economically and politically strongest power in Europe. But their superiority does not equal the past and present superiority of the Americans.

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

All political power is a trust.

All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.