Politics Quotes - Page 16

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Being a conservative on campus is like bing a goat amongst the taliban. You are never safe.

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.

I went to the UN and even the guidebook was spineless.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.

A shocked sense of justice has to be removed and justice restored.

They wanted me to be a Washington.

All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

Politics is a game requiring great coolness.