Quotes About Politics

CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Specifically, in American history, the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch. Revolutions are usually accompanied by a considerable effusion of blood, but are accounted worth it—this appraisement being made by beneficiaries whose blood had not the mischance to be shed.

Similarly, at exactly the time when it has become clear that global warming is in every sense a collective predicament, humanity finds itself in the thrall of a dominant culture in which the idea of the collective has been exiled from politics, economics, and literature alike.

Democracy is a wonderful thing, Mr Burnham,' he said wistfully. 'It is a marvellous tamasha that keeps the common people busy so that men like ourselves can take care of all matters of importance. I hope one day India will also be able to enjoy these advantages—and China too, of course.

People without hope are a dangerous crowd, even in a republic.

So this is all about appeareances?` murmured Vick. 'Being king IS all about appeareances,' said Orso. 'An endless perfomance with no chance for an encore and for damn sure no applause.

The most civilized place in the world," murmured Father Yarvi. "Though that mostly means folk prefer to stab each other in the back than in the front.

An excessive and a brutal act, but better to act with too much force than too little. Better to be held in fear, than in contempt... There is no place for sentiment in politics.

War is but the pricking point of politics.

Debauchery is profitable under any government

And now the King is dead. Who knows who will replace him? Voting for a monarch! Have you ever heard of such a thing?

It may be a union in name, but they fight each other tooth and nail. The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars of words, and tricks, and guile, but no less bloody for that. The casualties are many.

Government by committee! Everyone pulling their own way! You can only react, never prepare!

The swamps will run out of flies," said Shudra, "before politicians run out of arguments.

Rudy Giuliani -- there's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9/11.

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

In Washington, D. C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

Sir, when the love of peace degenerates into fear of war, it becomes of all passions the most despicable." —Senator Giles of Virginia, to President Thomas Jefferson, before the War of 1812

For the years 1749 to 1926, Alexander Chizhevsky compared the annual number of important political and social events with increased solar activity. On the graph, the blue line illustrates sun flares and the red line relates to human excitability. Notice that every time there is high solar activity, there is a correlation with heightened human events.