954 private quotes tagged politics

“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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“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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“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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“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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“One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.” — Cal Thomas

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“For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.” — John W. Gardner

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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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“Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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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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“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” — Barry Goldwater

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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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“In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.” — Dick Gregory

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“I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.” — Edward Koch

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“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.” — Louis D. Brandeis

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“America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.” — Warren G. Harding

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“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.” — Ross Perot

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“There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.” — Gertrude Stein

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“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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

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“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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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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