Politics Quotes - Page 8

Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.

Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians.

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

Revolutions are always verbose.

Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.

I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.