Politics Quotes - Page 52

I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.

Be a politician; no training necessary.

Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they're doing. Amen.

Voters want a fraud they can believe in.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

The message of [Fahernheit 9/11] is very weak and propagandistic ... We were used to such messages in the communist days. Everybody has open eyes and can understand that this is propaganda. It was a weak film that tells us nothing new.

In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.

But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

I don't like politics especially in chess. All I want is promote chess 24/7.

I'm glad I'm blind and can't see it.

Render any politician down and there's enough fat to fry an egg.