Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Jimmy CarterThere has to be a global mission of human progress.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamMy heart aches for America and its deceived people.
Billy GrahamPolitics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald ReaganPolitically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
Alice WalkerNo government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas JeffersonNixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.
Hunter S. ThompsonPolitical courage is not political suicide.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerLincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.
George H. W. BushIt was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.
Colin PowellIn the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.
Jordan PetersonIt is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Thomas CarlyleThe Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘
Mark TwainIf the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
Ronald ReaganOne of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
Margaret ThatcherThe most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Aldous HuxleyConservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Benjamin DisraeliTo acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand RussellWhat the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.
Lady GagaI confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
H. L. MenckenThere are really two core principles at play here. There’s giving people a voice so that people can express their opinions. Then, there’s keeping the community safe, which I think is really important. We’re not gonna let people plan violence or attack each other or do bad things.
Mark ZuckerbergOn some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. MenckenWhat Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack ObamaWhen our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘
Brian EnoI was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Abraham LincolnThe intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
Bill GatesI do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
Abraham LincolnThere’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
Noam ChomskyThe human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon BonapartePolitics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.
Pope FrancisWar is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
Carl von ClausewitzThe United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
Fidel CastroOur only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
Noam ChomskyLet me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.
Barack ObamaThe savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Henry David ThoreauDiplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry KissingerYou can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.
Samuel JohnsonThe masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious.
Jordan PetersonThis and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
PlatoThe American people have not become heartless.
Joe BidenWhat I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.
Barack ObamaBeing president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.
Michelle ObamaDemocracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
H. L. MenckenI think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.
Jimmy CarterThe advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.
Christopher HitchensSometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Eleanor RooseveltI have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.
John KennedyIf I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.
Joe BidenThe care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas JeffersonThe Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Dalai LamaAll free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘
John F. KennedyThe last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.
Pope FrancisA state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
Winston ChurchillThe French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
BonoPolitics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank ZappaAs individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
Steve JobsPolitics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald ReaganFortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.
Michelle ObamaOur defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham Lincoln