Politics Quotes - Page 34

I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

We as Democrats have no apologies to make to anyone.

Even the Lord had skeptical members of his party.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manufacturers) who are responsible for the death, mutilation or general wretchedness of thousands or millions are rewarded with fame, riches and prizes... If you are going to rob, rob big; if you're going to kill, kill big.

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

There is no power without justice.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

I say one evil empire down...one to go.

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.