Politics Quotes - Page 44

This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

It was only his fifth offense, and this time he's killed someone.

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.

I don't make any apologies for what I do on the campaign trail.

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

Money honey, if you want to get along with me.

War is the enemy of all mankind.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Al Gore couldn't be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator