Quotes About Politics

The NRA - they are a paper tiger.

There are dangers to riding the tiger of populism.

Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.

I believe that Trump is a danger. I believe that he wants to tighten and build up his relationship to Russia for whatever reasons.

There is no justification whatsoever for waging war on undesirable regimes, because these wars ultimately do not favour democracy on the ground.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

A city for sale and soon to perish if it finds a buyer!

Punic faith.

If a man is ambitious for power, he can have no better supporters than the poor: They are not worried about their own possessions, since they have none, and whatever will put something in their pockets is right and proper in their eyes." (Jugurthine War 86.3)

T]he public interest, as is too frequently the case, was defeated by private influence.

Jugurtha:) That it was a venal city, and would soon perish, if it could but find a purchaser!

B]oth which officers, with the title of commanders, were waiting near the city, having been prevented from entering in triumph, by the malice of a cabal, whose custom it was to ask a price for every thing, whether honorable or infamous.

namque, uti paucis verum absolvam, post illa tempora quicumque rem publicam agitavêre, honestis nominibus, alii sicuti populi iura defenderent, pars quo senatûs auctoritas maxima foret, bonum publicum simulantes pro suâ quisque potentiâ certabant.

Caesar:) But in a large state there arise many men of various dispositions. At some other period, and under another consul, who, like the present, may have an army at his command, some false accusation may be credited as true; and when, with our example for a precedent, the consul shall have drawn the sword on the authority of the senate, who shall stay its progress, or moderate its fury?

Thatcher once said that if she were a visitor from Mars required to create a constitutional system, "I would set up ... a hereditary monarchy, wonderfully trained, in duty and in leadership which understands example, which is always there, which is above politics, for which the whole nation has an affection and which is a symbol of patriotism.

The longer the Prime Minister was in politics, the more he was learning to despise most politicians. And though a prime minister selected his ministers personally, it was not much of a choice when the pool contained more minnows and stickle-backs than it did pike and salmon.

Politics are important but your soul lasts forever. So, you know, you make ... decisions on what you think is right or wrong and then you just go forward.

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

And what of this great map on the wall?" William explained how for each country he annotated information about population, politics, religion and other facts. Finally he was overcome with emotion as the reality struck him once again. "Don't you see, Brother Fuller? Most of the world does not know Christ. Everywhere we look there are pagans! Pagans. Pagans. Pagans.

I saw how important it is not to shun those with whom we disagree. As the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once said, 'We must always seek the truth in our opponent's error and the error in our own truth.' This is just as important in our domestic politics as in our foreign dealings.

If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.