Politics Quotes - Page 55

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

I must express my protest against continually increasing the debt without taking positive steps to slow its growth.

Yes, and you should question your government.

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.

I can very well say without hesitation that all those who have political power, even if they use it well have acquired it by demonic mediation and even if they are not conscious of it, they are worshippers of diabolos.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

You want me to tell you what my husband thinks? My husband is not secretary of state; I am. If you want my opinion, I will tell you my opinion. I am not going to be channeling my husband.

Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.

The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.

Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent.

When you are so obsessed with identity politics it's not healthy because you're constantly worried about how you're perceived as opposed to your achievements. Once your identity becomes your achievement then you run into serious problems.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

All that we got here is American made. It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.