Political Quotes - Page 19

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

It is only after mature deliberation and thorough preparation that I have decided upon the Program of Revolution and defined the procedure of the revolution in three stages. The first is the period of military government; the second, the period of political tutelage; and the third, the period of constitutional government.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.

Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.

I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

In order for peace to reign, one must speak the truth, and that is why I have spoken of a political abduction, ... ... Far from my own country, but in deep communion with all Haitians, including Haitians abroad, I continue to launch an appeal for peaceful resistance.

Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the altar cloth.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Give the FBI unchecked domestic spying powers and instead of focusing on preventing terrorism, it will revert to doing what it does best - monitoring, harassing, and intimidating political dissidents and thousands of harmless immigrants.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.

There are certain basic principles regarding the proper role of government. If principles are correct, then they can be applied to any specific proposal with confidence... The true statesman values principle above popularity, and works to create popularity for those political principles which are wise and just.