Politics Quotes - Page 17

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

All revolutions devour their own children.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

And if I am elected, I promise the formation of a new party, a third party, a wild party.

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and deplorable as if their limbs were covered with manacles. Abstract all property from the hands of labor and you thereby reduce labor to dependence; and that dependence becomes as complete a servitude as the master could fix upon his slave.

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

Who watches the watchmen?

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

I'd have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I'd ban the ones made in China.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.