Political Quotes - Page 78

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

The United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.

It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.

Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk.

I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.

One of the more positive aspects of our existence in Oceania is that truth is flexible and negotiable, despite attempts by some of us to impose political, religious, and other forms of absolutionism. Versions of truth may be accepted for particular purposes and moments, only to be reversed when circumstances demand other versions; and we often accede to things just to stop being bombarded, and then go ahead and do what we want to do anyway.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture.

There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody - one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.

My political position is that I'm happy to be alive and in North America.

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state".

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.

Good behavior wins even an enemy.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.

The good news is that we've seen in recent years significant reductions in the cost of solar panels and wind production. We know how significant an impact we can have by moving towards energy efficiency and transforming our transportation system. So we know what has to be done. We have to develop the political will to do it, and, as president, this would be an issue of huge concern to me.

The middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy and the political life of the country.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.