Politics Quotes - Page 46

The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.

We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts.

If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.

Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.

Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing.

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

I'm not the Carter who'll never tell a lie.

Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.

There is no gambling like politics.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.

In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape.

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife.

The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Don't talk to the people until you've listened to the people.

[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they become concession-happy and will accede to almost anything.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.