Quotes About Politics

If we were to allow the Chris Grayling and his cronies to tear up the Human Rights Act and withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights from which it is derived, we would set back the cause of victims' rights by decades.

Without a way to make regular, positive deposits in social relationships that bridge political lines, every civic debate is a withdrawal without social reserves, leaving people perpetually overdrawn.

If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back.

I certainly didn't see the mayor's withdrawal coming. I was looking for a highly contested mayoral campaign.

In 2012, Hillary Clinton's State Department, acting through its ambassador, Mari Carmen Aponte, threatened to withhold critical development aid unless El Salvador passed a major privatization law.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms.

For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

Diplomacy is really far less important than the stock movements within Russia.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.

I always feel that most political jokes, if you're going to do them, you have to do them within the next five minutes, or else they're outdated. By the time you've got it to the point that it's strong, it would be 12 years old.

I think extremists within the base may very well move the Democratic party away from its pro-Israel position.

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

We have to pick up people's issues within and outside Parliament and give a voice to their pain and problems and come across as a party which understands this.

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.

The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.