Politics Quotes - Page 13

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

A Republican moves slowly. They are what we call conservatives. A conservative is a man who has plenty of money and doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money. A Democrat is a fellow who never had any, but doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't have some.

It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected, possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.

Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

Osama, yo Mama didn't raise you right. When you were young, she must have wrapped your turban too tight.

In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the mental history of mankind.

In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.