Political Quotes - Page 58

Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people.

I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

I'm not consumed with political machinations.

History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.

The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.

The point is that in any country, including the United States, may be in the United States even more often than in any other country, foreign policy is used for internal political struggle.

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely to be produced when people see that it is going to be confiscated.

In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.

They may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for sheriff.