Politics Quotes - Page 72

The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs.

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.

[Obamacare] has to be enforced because nobody wants it. This is the nature of progressive government they don't care if it's not good for you. It's good for them.

Identity politics isn't old school! It's still alive and well.

I'm at a place of deep cynicism about American politics.

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

The political is personal.

Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.

If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays.

Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.

As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.

Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.

The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

All isms end in fascism.

The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.