Politics Quotes - Page 24

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.

This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.

I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.

The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall

Now if you shoot someone, sir, you can get off Scott free. It's the latest thing Mr. Lincoln, can you believe?

He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits salient virtuosi a gang of unmitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soothe and tickle the midriff, its incomparable services as a maker of entertainment.

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough - that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.

I think that some restriction on speech is appropriate.