Famous Quotes

"One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are."

Cal Thomas on Politics

More quotes about Politics

• "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

  John F. Kennedy on Politics

• "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

  Mark Twain on Politics

• "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

  Plato on Politics

• "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

  Milton Friedman on Politics

• "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

  Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by Cal Thomas

• "In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it."

• "America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love."

• "In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it."

• "People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government."

• "One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are."