Politics Quotes - Page 38

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

As for our majority... one is enough.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, 'I told you so.'

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.

If this depression stays with us, the loser Tuesday is going to be the winner.

Here's another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high taxes, he wants business to help the little fellow to get started and get some work, and then pay business back by buying things when he's at work. Business says, 'Let everybody alone. Let business alone, and quit monkeying with us, and we'll get everything going for you, and if we prosper, naturally the worker will prosper.'

Both gangs have been bad sports, so see if at least one can't redeem themselves by offering no alibis, but cooperate with the winner, for no matter which one it is the poor fellow is going to need it.

Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".