Famous Quotes
- The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
- Fidel Castro on Politics
- The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
- Reinhold Niebuhr on Politics
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
- Lord Acton on Politics
- The secret of getting things done is to act!
- Dante Alighieri on Politics
- The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
- Otto Von Bismarck on Politics
- The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything.
- The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.
- John Major on Politics
- The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
- Erich Fromm on Politics
- The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.
- Grover Norquist on Politics
- The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.
- Christopher Hitchens on Politics
- The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.
- Rob Walton on Politics
- The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
- Herbert Hoover on Politics
- 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.
- Hunter S. Thompson on Politics
- The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.
- Frances O'Grady on Politics
- The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
- Deng Xiaoping on Politics
- The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
- Bill Vaughan on Politics
- The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken on Politics
- The world is governed by opinion.
- William Ellery Channing on Politics
- The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
- Chuck Palahniuk on Politics
- The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
- John Jay Chapman on Politics
- The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
- Jonathan Sacks on Politics
- The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
- John Foster Dulles on Politics
- Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
- Robertson Davies on Politics
- There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
- Gertrude Stein on Politics
- There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
- There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.
- Thomas Frank on Politics
- There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
- Alexis De Tocqueville on Politics
- There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
- Vladimir Lenin on Politics
- There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
- Alan Clark on Politics
- There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
- Margaret Thatcher on Politics
- There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
- Paul Wellstone on Politics
- There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
- John Kenneth Galbraith on Politics
- There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
- Imran Khan on Politics
- There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
- Alastair Campbell on Politics
- There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
- Mao Zedong on Politics
- There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Politics
- There is no gambling like politics.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Politics
- There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
- Emma Goldman on Politics
- There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
- Will Rogers on Politics
- There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
- Thomas Huxley on Politics
- There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
- Barack Obama on Politics
- There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.
- George Papandreou on Politics
- There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
- Brad Henry on Politics
- There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'
- John Sayles on Politics
- There will be no politics, no ifs and buts if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.
- Ian Botham on Politics
- There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.
- Robert Griffin III on Politics
- There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
- There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
- Laura Ingraham on Politics
- There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
- Harold Pinter on Politics
- There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.
- Gail Simmons on Politics
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