Political Quotes - Page 107

Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed.

The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.

The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political — legislative and administrative — decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it voluntarily. What it is in Washington is extortion because they all ask for the money.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence, abuse or exploitation.

The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

When a peacekeeping operation is deployed, it is in support of a political process, it is part of an integrated approach. It is there to help when a state has broken down and to help that state regain some kind of balance. There is no quick fix.

There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result not of theory, but "of a spirit of amity, and that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable" . . . the equal vote allowed to each state, is at once a constitutional recognition of the portion of sovereignty remaining in the individual states, and an instrument for preserving that residuary sovereignty.

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.