Politics Quotes - Page 9

• Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mean, Liberty, Rising

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 369 (18 April 1775)

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• A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

  Robert Frost

  Men, Political, Tolerance

  "The Geography of the Imagination". Book by Guy Davenport, 1981.

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• It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it

  Jimmy Buffett

  Honesty, Political, Suffering

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• It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Europe, Chinese, United

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• In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed.

  Morton Blackwell

  Moving

  "The Law of Politics". Book by Graeme Orr, 2010.

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• What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

  Bernard Crick

  Men, What Matters, Acting

  Bernard Crick (2013). “In Defence of Politics”, p.129, A&C Black

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• The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Political, Society, Events

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• In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

  George Will

  Mean, Sacrifice, Class

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• You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

  Mario Cuomo

  Poetry, Political, Campaigns

  The New Republic, April 04, 1985.

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• n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Funny, Life

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

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• If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

  Kin Hubbard

  Hate, Libertarian, Public Speaking

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• We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

  Hugh Sidey

  Blather, Deals, Boast

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• Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

  George H. W. Bush

  Running, Romance, Political

  "Like Father, Like Son" by Brooke Shelby Biggs, www.motherjones.com. June 1, 2001.

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• Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

  H. L. Mencken

  Liberty, Auctions, Election

  "Prejudices: First Series". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1919.

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• What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Humorous, Political

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• Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

  Will Rogers

  Political, Would Be, Republican

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• What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

  Barbara Jordan

  Peace, Integrity, War

  Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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• The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

  Will Rogers

  Memories, Office, Voting

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Direct Action

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Party, Errors, Society

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2004). “Why I am So Wise”, p.79, Penguin UK

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• There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.21, FastPencil Inc

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• The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

  Mark Twain

  Government, Order, Political

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Disease And Death, Political

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 90

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• If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Differences, Diversity

  1963 Speech, American University, Washington DC, 10 Jun.

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• You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

  Malcolm X

  Hope, Greed, Political

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