Politics Quotes - Page 36

But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the possessors of property with personal control over it, as individuals or as families. For property is the necessary condition of economic freedom in the full sense of that term. He that has not property is under economic servitude to him who has property, whether the possessor of it be another individual or the State.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver.

Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

The media is Obama's scandal condom.

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

Well, I did say we'll put it out and we'll put it out when we can. But I don't know what we can put out or when we can put it out.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

I've always wanted to do more significant stuff. I think of myself as well-informed, but the hardest thing to do is talk about politics and current events and be funny and not just preachy.

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.

[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.