954 private quotes tagged politics

“Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.” — Robert Wyatt

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“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“Politics is a blood sport.” — Aneurin Bevan

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“What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?” — Rahm Emanuel

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“Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.” — George McGovern

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“The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.” — John Foster Dulles

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“While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.” — Jon Meacham

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“The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.” — Terry Eagleton

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“In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.” — J. William Fulbright

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“Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.” — Erma Bombeck

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“I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.” — Cher

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

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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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“It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.” — Sandra Day O'Connor

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“There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.” — Gail Simmons

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“A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” — A. J. Liebling

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“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.” — Thomas B. Macaulay

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“Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.” — Daniel J. Boorstin

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“No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.” — Hannah Arendt

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“I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.” — Zell Miller

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“There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.” — Thomas Frank

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“Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.” — Jesse Jackson

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“Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.” — Richard Stallman

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