Politics Quotes - Page 4

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read

Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

90% of the problem with marijuana is prohibition related, not use related.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.