Political Quotes - Page 99

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head.

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

Anarchism is surprisingly effective in solving actual problems largely because anarchists have thought a lot about solving actual problems on a micro level in ways that other political ideologies don't really feel they have to until after they seize state power.

The media, I think, have to be accountable for some of the misdirection that is put forward in politics in some of the misapprehension, maybe even some of the lack of confidence in the political process. Because the most benign, frank thought can be twisted and portrayed as something that it really wasn't intended to.

One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

Evil person causes harm even if treated will.

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.

I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

The political system, folks, is rigged. It's a rigged, disgusting, dirty system.

So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

Great obstacles make great leaders.