Politics Quotes - Page 53

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

I'm Canadian so American politics are not really in my wheelhouse.

Money in politics is a huge issue.

There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons... use them.

This administration is totally colorblind.

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal.

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

Where the hell is Chad?

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam.

A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who.

In the present state of human society, however, We deem it advisable that the wage-contract should, when possible, be modified somewhat by a contract of partnership, as is already being tried in various ways to the no small gain both of the wage-earners and of the employers. In this way wage-earners are made sharers in some sort in the ownership, or the management, or the profits.

No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

If you ever get a war without blood and gore, well, I'll be the first to go.

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

Diplomacy is living in state.

American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.