Politics Quotes - Page 12

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.

Great men are never cruel without necessity.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

To get rich is glorious.

As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?

Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.

...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

Even when I was wrong, I got my point across.

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics?

I don't give a damn about the civilians.

Politics is the art of anesthesia.

Great ideology creates great times.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Michael Moore simultaneously represents everything I detest in a human being and everything I feel obligated to defend in an American. Quite simply, it is that stupid moron's right to be that utterly, completely wrong.