Politics Quotes - Page 28

...one is reminded that [John Kerry, D-MA] really just a better-looking Ted Kennedy, a richer Michael Dukakis.

Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

.......the truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

In politics a week is a very long time.

If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

I went to my Congressman and he said quote quote, I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

If you lead, you will eventually serve with Judas or Peter.

Identity politics are becoming less important since culture's being blended into one big thing - I look at kids' Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.