Political Quotes - Page 66

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

To my mind, if we do not get a handle on money in politics and the degree to which big money controls the political process in this country, nobody is going to bring about the changes that is needed in this country for the middle class and working families.

I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

The President has apologized for his activities with Monica Lewinsky. These were too little, too late, in my opinion.

Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives--professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems.

I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is the political mode best suited to their disposition and their capacities. Under its regime, the citizen, like the soldier, is relieved of the burden of initiative and is divested of all responsibility, save for doing as he is told.

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods