Political Quotes - Page 101

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.

The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more.

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Imagine me going around with a pot belly. It would mean political ruin.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international political agenda. The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked. The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind

The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict what will move the public in one direction or another.

Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

None of Ho Chi Minh's colleagues was as dedicated to the use of political struggle, psychological warfare, and diplomatic means as he was.

Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it.

I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.