Politics Quotes - Page 23

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to dogma as any junior member of the Spanish Inquisition.

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.

The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

(T)he Left has moved so far to the left that this pro-choice, lesbian feminist is now considered a Right-Winger!

Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?

All those men have their price.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.