Political Quotes - Page 133

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

But actors with political views are a dime a dozen.

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.

What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.

We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political culture lingers. There is something missing from our public debates.

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.

I may go back and spice it up with a little bit of the tool stuff and grunting and all that that I know so well. But it feels like I'm rehashing old material. And some of my audiences like that. So I'm there to entertain. I'm not there to make a political statement or anything like that. I'm there to entertain.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians’ fingerprints on the murder weapon.

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

After political crusades for 'affordable housing' ended up ruining the housing market and much of the economy with it, many of the same politicians are now carrying on a crusade for 'affordable health care.' But what you can afford has absolutely nothing to do with the cost of producing anything. Refusing to pay those costs means that you are just not going to continue getting the same quantity and quality - regardless of what any politician says or how well he says it.

Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence.

I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy the efforts of the patriot as of the philosopher, to exclude its influence if possible, from social life. The good are rare enough at best. There is no reason to subdivide them by artificial lines. But whether we shall ever be able so far to perfect the principles of society as that political opinions shall, in its intercourse, be as inoffensive as those of philosophy, mechanics, or any other, may well be doubted.

I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret.