Politics Quotes - Page 26

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?

As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

I had rather be right than be President.

A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

[M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago.

In Islam religion and politics cannot be separated. Unlike other religions, Islam is political by its very nature.

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.