Quotes About Politics

To have a villainous ruler imposed on you was a misfortune. To elect him yourself was a disgrace.

Beaumarchais sighed, consumed by his own labors, "politics only rewards success. Best efforts earn only a bitter smile.

There were as many reasons to accuse someone of witchcraft in 1692 as there were to denounce him under the Nazi occupation of France; envy, insecurity, political enmity, unrequited love, love that had run its course.

Dryly he noted that some individuals enjoyed every political gift except that of discretion.)

His sympathies lay with the man in the street, to whom he believed government answered. A friend distilled his politics to two maxims: "Rulers should have little, the people much." And privilege should make way for genius and industry.

He argued—in a line for which Jefferson would get the dubious credit, speaking of a different revolution—that "civil wars in the political systems, like bleeding to the human body, or thunderstorms in due season, are salutary.

A negro in the White House? Oh no! Some people thought we'd never set foot in the White House again since we built it!!!!

Politics views the globe exactly as it did in the preceding centuries (but now translunar space is included)—as a chessboard for contests. But all along, that board has been surreptitiously changing; it is no more a stationary ground, a foundation, but a raft, afloat and splintering under the blows of unseen currents that are carrying it in a direction in which no one has been looking.

Los políticos son demasiado tontos para que nosotros podamos prever sus acciones aplicando la razón

Because business, in many ways, is like politics or beauty pageants. The talented do, at times, rise to the top. But those with guts, gumption, unbounded energy, hot desire, and the ability to push people around do very well, too, even the ugly ones.

Zeev Sternhell has conclusively demonstrated that nearly all the ideas found in fascism and nazism first appeared in France.

El liberalismo español arranca en los años 1809 y 1810. Fue uno de los primeros en desarrollarse en el siglo XIX y durante las siguientes décadas ejerció una influencia considerable en Europa e Hispanoamérica.

Just as some historians seemed more shocked that the author of the Declaration of Independence had sex with Sally Hemmings than by the fact that he owned her, Clinton received far more censure for his sexual misdeeds than for other moral lapses, such as his politically motivated decision to ignore the finding of a bipartisan panel that issuing needles to drug addicts would save lives and curtail the spread of AIDS without increasing drug addiction.

Even though we are the most privileged and richest human beings there have been so far, in terms of the stability and length of our lives and the cultural resources available to us, we're not as happy as we should be. I'd like to see politics more oriented toward the question of happiness; certainly I'd like to see religion more concerned with making integral, happy people and raising the quality of personal life in our culture.

Senator John Kyle claiming that over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Stephen Colbert: Over 90 percent, that is unbelievable...in that it is not true. Only 3 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Kyle just rounded it up to the nearest 90.

I like the fact of John McCain's head being severed. Like that it will fit so much more nicely up George Bush's butt!

I guess 14% plus Jesus equals victory

President Bush, have a hot dog with me.

Mitt Romney's email was hacked! So if you start getting messages that sound like they're from a bot, he's fixed the problem.

The pistachio: it's just like our politics. When the two sides are divided, that's when the nuts come out.

My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

Olympics are a warped, watered-down version of the only worthy contest between nations: war

Fox News gives you both sides of every story: the President's side, and the Vice President's side.