Politics Quotes - Page 22

If you build it, he will come.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt.

You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.

A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the public should feel himself an owner of public property-such as a Town Park-and should therefore respect it as his own, they are saying something which all our experience proves to be completely false. No man feels of public property that it is his own; no man will treat it with the care of the affection of a thing which is his own.

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these singular modes of politics to broader political narratives about democracy so we can recognize their strengths and limitations in building broad-based social movements. In short, we need to find new ways to connect education to the struggle for democracy that is under assault in ways that were unimaginable forty years ago.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.