954 private quotes tagged politics

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” — Newt Gingrich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.” — Russell Baker

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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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