Politics Quotes - Page 21

(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

[Virginia] has a very sizeable collection of democrats, liberals and moonbats. (Yes, they can be separated.)

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

Reading musses up my mind.

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also eventually unstable, dangerously ripe for religious and political extremism.

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.

Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word, won. That's pretty much the full argument: Restate a factual proposition with sneering quote marks.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.