Politics Quotes - Page 14

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

Politics is applied biology.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

POW 369, I should salute you from this heart of mine. And thank you for placing your life on the line.

One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.

I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

The way to have power is to take it.