Quotes About Politics

I didn't leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.

We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around.

If politics were a musical, it would be Promises, Promises.

How can a president not be an actor?

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

There can be no freedom without order, and there is no order without virtue. Now, that's a simple enough formulation, but it's an insight found not only in the writings of Founding Fathers like Washington or great political thinkers like Edmund Burke; it is also found in a great part of our Judeo-Christian tradition.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

The best minds are not in government.

I think growing up in a small town is a good foundation for anyone who decides to enter politics. You get to know people as individuals, not as blocs or members of special interest groups.

Of all the millions of refugees we've seen in the modern world, their flight is always away from, not toward, the Communist world.

N.S.C. briefing. Castro is very nervous. We'll try to keep him that way.

Jefferson repeatedly said that the best government was the smallest government, that "governments are not the masters of the people, but the servants of the people governed.

Estamos caminhando para o socialismo, um sistema que, como se diz, só funciona no Céu, onde não precisam dele, e no Inferno, onde ele já existe.

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so.

A rebuke to Cong. "How could it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing & talk by the hour.

For years, I've heard the question: "How could an actor be president?" I've sometimes wondered how you could be president and not be an actor.

I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

Cuncta fessa. Que quiere decir: Todo el mundo está cansado. El cansancio ante la inseguridad política y social es lo que llevó a Roma a perder sus derechos y sus libertades. El miedo provoca hambre de autoritarismo en las personas. Es un pésimo consejero el miedo.