Politics Quotes - Page 67

Here we will have possibly a bunch of tax dodgers deciding the election.

The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth, if he does then he should be worshiped.

Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick.

This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!

Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.

I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.

When capital owners are few, the private-property conduits of necessity create vast savings reservoirs for those few. If there were many owners, the same conduits would broadly irrigate the economy with purchasing power.

It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.

Property in everyday life, is the right of control.

The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.

The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential.

There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the range of choice and the autonomy (not to mention the leisure and freedom) of the family even partially supported by capital ownership?

If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption in the form of return on invested capital, less than 1 percent of United States households are capitalists.

Thus, the capital owner is not a parasite or a rentier but a worker - a capital worker. A distinction between labor work and capital work suggests the lines along which we could develop economic institutions capable of dealing with increasingly capital-intensive production, as our present institutions cannot.

The purpose of finance is to enable business to acquire the ownership of capital instruments before it has saved the funds to buy and pay for them. The logic used by business in investing is things that will pay for themselves is not today available to the 95% born without capital. Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.

We have an economic policy that is just about 10,000 years out of date.

Why kill good people just to get a bad man?

Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

Pelosi's problem is her spine doesn't reach her brain.

You should never ask actors about politics.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.