Quotes About Politics

Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

You can't get back to power by defining your project in negative terms. But it helps to have somebody in office who represents the opposite of what you believe.

Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north

In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.

A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.

I would SERIOUSLY consider moving to Texas if it would secede from the union and re-form as The Republic of Texas. It has that power.

American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.

The Syrian people do not recognize themselves in the elite politics of the Muslim Brotherhood or the left, each of which is looking for an external power rather than the people's own self-activity.

A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons.

If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

I would love to play the President. Give me the suit, give me the power, give me the oval office. That would be really fun.

The Democratic Party is that amazing thing, out of power for six years and yet exhausted. They're pale, tired, and unready. Too bad, since it's their job to be an alternative, not an embarrassment.

I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.

The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise it through power, violence or weapons.

We need to do whatever we can, legally and within our power, to remove Donald Trump from office as fast as possible before something serious happens in this country.

This is politics. People in power never have to play by the same rules.

It's the most ambitious power grab I've ever witnessed.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.