954 private quotes tagged politics

“Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.” — Pope John Paul II

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“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.” — Charles de Gaulle

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“You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.” — Daniel Hannan

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“Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?” — Robert Orben

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“I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.” — John Adams

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“The secret of getting things done is to act!” — Dante Alighieri

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“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.” — John Stuart Mill

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“A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.” — Albert Pike

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“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.” — William E. Gladstone

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“Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.” — Paul Wellstone

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“Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.” — W.C. Fields

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“Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” — Charles de Gaulle

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“Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.” — Mario Puzo

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“Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.” — Russell Baker

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“As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.” — Daniel J. Boorstin

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“The most important political office is that of the private citizen.” — Louis D. Brandeis

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“I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.” — A. N. Wilson

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“The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.” — Fidel Castro

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“I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.” — Kevin Costner

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“If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.” — Edward Koch

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“Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.” — Fritz Sauckel

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“A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.” — Leo Rosten

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“The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.” — Neal Barnard

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“To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.” — Ai Weiwei

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