954 private quotes tagged politics

“Television is democracy at its ugliest.” — Paddy Chayefsky

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“We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.” — Kin Hubbard

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“The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.” — Nick Clegg

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“Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.” — Grover Norquist

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

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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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“Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.” — Emma Goldman

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“I haven't been very active in politics.” — Clint Eastwood

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“The world is governed by opinion.” — William Ellery Channing

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

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“In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.” — Robert Byrne

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“In politics the middle way is none at all.” — John Adams

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“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — Lord Acton

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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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“Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.” — will.i.am

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“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.” — Thomas Sowell

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“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.” — Charles W. Pickering

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“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” — Dante Alighieri

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“Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.” — Leon Panetta

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“Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.” — Lady Bird Johnson

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“War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.” — Ross Perot

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