Politics Quotes - Page 30

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.

When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

There are but three political-economic roads from which we can choose... We could take the first course and further exacerbate the already concentrated ownership of productive capital in the American economy. Or we could join the rest of the world by taking the second path, that of nationalization. Or we can take the third road, establishing policies to diffuse capital ownership broadly, so that many individuals, particularly workers, can participate as owners of industrial capital. The choice is ours.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

The President is aware of what is going on. That is not to say that something is going on.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.

I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.

The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.

First you win the argument, then you win the vote.

Freedom is participation in power.

A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory.