Political Quotes - Page 29

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and thorough reform than any others ever attempted. They teach that Christ's kingdom is not of this world; that the church is not a national, political, or provincial establishment; but a congregation of holy men, separated from the world by the receiving of the Holy Spirit.

Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.

The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy.

There is hardly any politically minded man who acknowledges and agrees with every point of the program of a political party.

The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life.

You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.

Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual.

I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct.