politics quotes

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

I’m not a big politics guy.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Finality is not the language of politics.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.