Political Quotes - Page 77

A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.

You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.

The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat sold in market places, and slavery. Alas, many Conservatives think that everything has to be regulated and controlled.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

My wife is the sweetest, most tolerant, most beautiful woman in the world. This is a paid political announcement.

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single premise - are a very recent phenomenon ... Not before Hitler and Stalin were the great political potentialities of the ideologies discovered.

The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy of European democracies - not just directly by threatening the livelihoods of so many people and pushing the economy into a downward spiral, but also indirectly by undermining the legitimacy of the political system through this backdoor rewriting of the social contract.

A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general.

He is lofty, and I am eminent.

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.

As young Americans, you have an important responsibility, which is to become good citizens.

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.