Politics Quotes - Page 33

Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.

Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.

Trust not too much to appearances

Making mistakes is how you learn.

Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

Spouting quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara, which are as germane to our highly technological, computerized, cybernetic, nuclearpowered, mass media society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.