Political Quotes - Page 11

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.

Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.

Nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.