Politics Quotes - Page 68

Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?

What I really hope for, ultimately, is that the closet will be a non-factor in American politics in a couple of decades.

They probably would've taken Jesus if he hadn't been nailed down.

Politics makes strange post-masters.

My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.

I've been to your mountains, I've been to your sea-side, and everywhere I went somebody's wanted a free ride.

Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

Why is it that govt employees makes the best spouses? Because afterthey come back from work, they are not tired and they already readthe newspapers.

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.

There are no free lunches on welfare.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

During times like these, the wise are influential.

That this occurred at the launch of the report into the Labour Party's recent troubles with antisemitism shows how deep the sickness is in parts of left of British politics today.

We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one.

Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.

The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq - one of its largest trading partners - for years, partly because France holds billions in IOUs from Iraq that wouldn't be redeemable by a new regime.

Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.

Bad jokes, and gay marriage are destroying this country - but torture can save it.

Poor Al Gore, global warming completely debunked, via the very Internet you invented.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]