Political Quotes - Page 33

• Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize that ridiculous Enron project in India.' ... After all, they're greedy businessmen and you're a selfless public servant.

  Harry Browne

  Sorry, Mean, Should Have

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• In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Writing, Political Language

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• Everybody in politics lies.

  David Geffen

  Lying

  "Obama's Big Screen Test". www.nytimes.com. February 21, 2007.

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• Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.

  Fred Barnes

  Thinking, Doe, Congress

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• We have a lot of politicians who have really small brains and really big hearts.

  Rand Paul

  Heart, Brain, Politician

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are enough fools in Washington to destroy the country without any help from Muslim terrorists.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Country, Fool, Helping

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• I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.

  John P. Wheeler III

  Nouns, Scum, Lists

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• Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty.

  Neal Boortz

  Believe, People, Liberty

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• There is no limit to the hunger politicians have for the money you've worked so hard for. ... You can tell them to take a hike, but then the guns come out.

  Neal Boortz

  Gun, Limits, Hunger

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• One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point.

  John Fund

  Dog, Blue, House

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• The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Party, Church, Moral

  Pope Benedict XVI's Interview with The Journalists During The Flight to Mexico, w2.vatican.va. March 23, 2012.

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• Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

  Jeanne Shaheen

  Thinking, Issues, Politics

  "College Poll: Religion, Morality Play Important Roles in Politics" by Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. April 14, 2006.

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• The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

  Walter Annenberg

  Power, Money Power, Political Power

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• The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Independent, Reality, Essence

  Kwame Nkrumah (1965). “Neo-colonialism: the last stage of imperialism”, Nelson

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• Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing.

  Saul Alinsky

  Tactics, Shifting, Action

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.6, Vintage

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• We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'

  Martin Luther

  Running, Fighting, Justice

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• The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Truth, Government, Opinion

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• Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.

  Theodor Herzl

  Home, Pressure, Shifting

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• The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government Lies, Deceit, Politics

  Glenn Greenwald (2007). “A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency”, p.119, Crown

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• Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

  Jim Costa

  Government, Wind, Shifting

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• Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.

  Dilma Rousseff

  Commitment, Views, Historical

  "Dilma Rousseff: can Brazil's fighter survive the turmoil?" by Jonathan Watts and Bruce Douglas, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2015.

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• It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

  Gerrit Smith

  Peace, War, Men

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• Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

  Gerrit Smith

  Men, Rights, Natural

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• Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.

  Friedrich Engels

  Expansion, Appearance, Economy

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

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• A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Party, Literature, Adrift

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