Quotes About Politics

The implication strongly is that Osama bin Laden is a Hitler, even though he has no state power at all. It's just grotesque if you seriously think about it.

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised.

Russia hasn't paid any attention to ISIS. They're interested in keeping Assad in power.

You have the power to take our country back.

You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system.

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.

All power corrupts but some must govern.

You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

Conservatives are much more comfortable supporting the leader who's in power than liberals.

I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States.

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused.

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

I was the first Republican in the country to support the president's Clean Power Plan.

I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.

Democrats are awfully sensitive to losing power for a few years. I report, you decide.

The U.N. power comes from concerted action of the governments.

There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power.

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.