Politics Quotes - Page 25

The press lives on disaster.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.

Fear is the politicians dance partner.

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

Congress' dynastic politics has shattered the hopes & aspirations of people. Congress hides behind the veil of secularism whenever its governance falters and its misconduct is exposed. This will no longer go unchallenged. The younger generation will not accept these actions of Congress!

Government has only one religion - India first! Government has one holy book - the Constitution. The Government must be immersed in only one Bhakti- Bharat Bhakti! The Government's only strength is Jan Shakti! Government's only ritual is the well being of the 125 crore Indians! The only code of conduct of the Government should be 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas!

The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you