Politics Quotes - Page 6

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, "To hell with you."

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

There are no true friends in politics.

The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

Walter Mondale has all the charisma of a speed bump.

Ignore their heathen prayers and help us blow those little bastards straight to Hell. Amen.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.

Maybe democrats will eventually turn on Obamacare when they realize you might need a photo I.D. to participate in the program.