Political Quotes - Page 60

Who watches the watchmen?

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

I think the Olympic Games have been married to political statements. If I go back to Berlin in 1936, it was very politically orientated then, just with the Nazis.

All those who, since Adam Smith, have turned their attention to Political Economy, agree that in reality we do not buy articles of consumption with money, the circulating medium with which we pay for them. We must in the first instance have bought this money itself by the sale of our produce.

Our problems are technical, not political

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.

Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

That's really a part of my nature , it goes along with autonomy and independence of action - it's just that I don't identify with the local group, no matter what it is, whether it's the human species or the American democracy, the nation, the country, religions, political parties, nothing. None of these have my allegiance because I'm not really concerned with what they do. I don't feel a part of any of this.

Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.

I have never had, nor will I ever have, any [political] ambitions. The only thing on which I have always set my heart is being able to gain God's good pleasure and, therefore, trying to make him known correctly and loved by humanity.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

What one has to do usually can be done.

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.