Politics Quotes - Page 9

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

Being free is a state of mind.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.

They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.

The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

Is it possible to be anything in this country without being a politician?

I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.