Quotes About Politics

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

I am persuaded however that he [John Adams] means well for his Country, is always an honest Man, often a Wise One, but sometimes and in some things, absolutely out of his Senses.

On the whole, I wondered much how such a man came to be intrusted with so important a business as the conduct of a great army; but, having since seen more of the great world, and the means of obtaining, and motives for giving places, my wonder is diminished.

relatives. His most notable service in home politics was his reform of the postal system; but his fame as a statesman rests chiefly on his services in connection with the relations of the Colonies with Great Britain, and later with France. In 1757 he was sent to England to protest against the influence of the Penns in the government of the colony, and for five years he remained there, striving to enlighten the people and the ministry

In free governments the rulers are the servants.

The constitution] can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.

Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.

You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.

You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.

We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and the American struggle in Iraq. These events swung American public opinion in our favor

the Arab world is more than five hundred times the size of the Jewish state.

No other country faces both constant threats to its existence and constant criticism for acting against such threats.

the art of politics and the idea of cohering interests.

for close to a century Arab society and Arab politics have been commandeered by an anti-Jewish obsession that has known no limits: It harnessed the Nazis, promoted the Final Solution, launched five wars against Israel, embarked on a campaign of global terrorism, strangled the world's economy with oil blackmail, and now, in Iraq and elsewhere, is attempting to build nuclear bombs for the great Armageddon.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable the principles of it are troublesome.

A few years ago if yu said yu were Green Yu were really seen as Red.

Truman knew, Republicans would duck responsibility and attack the White House for partisan gain.

I think that having 24 people around the Cabinet table whose future depends upon maintaining the good will of one man is fundamentally undemocratic and it would be far better if Cabinet ministers were accountable to the Parliamentary Labour Party.

I never remember politics being quite as unpleasant as this before; but maybe this is what life is like at the top.

More and more communists are coming to realize that socialism without democracy is no socialism at all.... I believe that the next decade will see the growth in democratic socialism against the ideas of monetarism and corporation.

Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.

Donald Trump is a greater threat to the United States than terrorism.