Politics Quotes - Page 51

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.

I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

In poltitics you get what you deserve rather than what you want.

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

Information upon points of practical politics.

I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.

Like the archers of Agincourt, John O'Neal and the 254 Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman.

Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

If somebody's gonna stab me in the back, I wanna be there.

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.