Politics Quotes - Page 36

• Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose to focus on in their final months say a great deal about what are really the most important issues in the country.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Retirement, Issues

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.208, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• "I've become a huge fan of term limits," the former aide said, "because Armey and the others in leadership used to be just like you and your crew in their approach to spending. They have changed over the years."

  Mark Sanford

  Years, Political, Fans

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• The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

  Tom Coburn

  Political, Term Limits, Bears

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.213, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

  Winston Churchill

  Political, Term Limits, Servant

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• I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Office, Political, Abuse

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.101, Rowman & Littlefield

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• They wanted me to be a Washington.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Political, Term Limits, Wanted

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• In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are all that matters and yet conflicts over land, specially one like on the India-China border, that yields nothing, continue. This is a burden of ancient history that we continue to carry. If tomorrow there is settlement on planet Mars, we will begin to worry if others are interested.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Yield, Land

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• I still recall the excitement & patriotic fervour in Kargil when Tiger Hill was won.

  Narendra Modi

  Patriotic, India, Excitement

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• I am confident that Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana will open the doors of good politics.

  Narendra Modi

  Doors, India

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• I have toured around for 45 years and have experience of night halt at more than 400 districts. And that's why I know the reality of this earth.

  Narendra Modi

  Night, Reality, Years

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• The respect that I have got is not for Narendra Modi or the PM of India. It is respect for the people of India.

  Narendra Modi

  Pms, People, India

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• India's role is not to interfere in what Nepal does but to support Nepal in their development. Nepal should scale new heights of progress.

  Narendra Modi

  Support, Progress, India

  Twitter post from Aug 3, 2014

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• The India-Nepal border should not be a barrier but a bridge which helps bring prosperity to both sides.

  Narendra Modi

  Bridges, India, Borders

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• India wants to help Nepal build highways (H), information highways (I) and transways - transmission lines (T).

  Narendra Modi

  India, Lines, Want

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• World talks GDP but in Bhutan its about National Happiness. Am sure having India as a neighbour would be 1 of the reasons for the happiness.

  Narendra Modi

  Gdp, Bhutan, World

  Twitter post from Jun 15, 2014

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• Bharat for Bhutan and Bhutan for Bharat. The colour of our passports may be different but our thinking is the same. India stands committed to Bhutan's happiness and progress.

  Narendra Modi

  Thinking, Bhutan, Progress

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• Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought together. In this sense, families, clubs, and learned societies have their 'politics'. But the communities in which this manner of activities is pre-eminent are the hereditary co-operative groups, many of them of ancient lineage, all of them aware of a past, a present and a future, which we call states.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Past, People, Community

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• You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Valuable, Property

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred in the past 500 years, the result was war. The great Greek historian Thucydides identified these structural stresses as the primary cause of the war between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece. In his oft-quoted insight, "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable."

  Graham T. Allison

  War, Stress, Past

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• The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Struggle, Voice

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• Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he saw no evidence of any such outpouring of anger.

  Erik Larson

  Fall, Political, Saws

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• Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward the good perceived in other people. He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride.

  Robert D. Hare

  Eye, Pride, Self

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• History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of the American republic may be coming to its end... the US will probably maintain a facade of constitutional government and drift along until financial bankruptcy overtakes it.

  Chalmers Johnson

  Happy Life, Government, Political

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• Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion. American fascists of this stamp were clandestinely aligned with their German counterparts before the war, and are even now preparing to resume where they left off, after "the present unpleasantness" ceases.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, Law, Giving

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• Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Rights, Noble Man

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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