Political Quotes - Page 157

Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.

The Republicans may be better off without an agenda. They don't scare people.

How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?

Without a movement pressing for change, there's little hope. We've got to work the political system to make this happen fast. The physics and chemistry are daunting. The resources on the other side are very large.

George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book.

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

You're not a human till you're in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring.

Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for "machines" are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.

I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you, and you speak for 10 or 15 minutes in broad generalities.

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.

It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his Appetites and subduing his dearest Inclinations, but the skilful Management of wary Politicians; and the nearer we search into human Nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the Moral Virtues are the Political Offspring which Flattery begot upon Pride.

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.

The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

There is no gambling like politics.

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

We cannot learn men from books.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.

Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.