Political Quotes - Page 87

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Everything popular is wrong.

We must use a judicial, rather than a political, standard to evaluate [a nominee's] fitness for the Supreme Court. That standard must be based on the fundamental principle that judges interpret and apply but do not make law.

I stand for all people even if it causes me political heartburn - and I'm going to do that no matter what my future holds.

If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.

The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.

I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.

There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mills supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.

Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.

The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.

One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.

With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later, I have to defend my son. Anti-Semitism, I've seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger.

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We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Just as there can be little doubt that labor unions are a significant political force, neither can there be much question that this political force is a by-product of the purely industrial activities that unions regard as their major function.

When we use the word domestic [terrorism], we discount its actual impact as political terrorism, which is, of course, political violence meant to impact an audience outside of the immediate victims.

Tears are not arguments.

But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.