Political Quotes - Page 151

The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.

The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic.

Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected. He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.

In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.

I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

Keep good relations with the Grecians.

This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases.

When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us vs them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

I don't make any apologies for what I do on the campaign trail.

I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.