Quotes about politics

Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.

He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

The world hasn't changed that much men still rule.

Politics is not about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives

As the saying goes: God made man and woman Colonel Colt made them equal.

In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while in Washington he saw plenty of reasons for staying dead.

Then how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one revolutions are infinite.

Politics is shit it corrupts everything it touches...

Heaven doesn't only teach humans about virtue and divinity.It also shows us about politics and corruption and that's a fact.

Left wing...Right wing...it's so limited why doesn't it ever occur to any of them that what one is really longing for is the wishbone?

Intelligence is power it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue

Republicans don't want to 'save the world' they want to save the country from those who would 'save the world.

I am completely opposed to the British National Party I couldn't possibly support people who find fluorescent yellow flyers appealing.

Facts get shares opinions get shrugs.

Political revolutions never liberate anyone they are always reactionary.

Oppression is the seed of power you will plant it against yourself

But postmortems offering rational explanations for how a pussy-grabbing goblin managed to gain the White House over an experienced woman have mostly glossed over one of the well-worn dynamics in play: A competent woman losing a job to an incompetent man is not an anomalous Election Day surprise it is Tuesday in America.

We have always trusted the control of our doomsday devices to the “key” elected of our nations.The current “interests” reorganizing the world now transcend the interests of nations.So these weapons will only be launched to serve interests other than that of the nations that launch themHence the “key” elected…

Your moral values & ability to rationalize not your religious beliefs or political affiliations define what you should stand for in society.

Democracy is about the dialogue protest is about initiating the dialogue and freedom of speech is about respecting each other’s dialogue.

I know that the theory of evolution is true Pigs evolved into politicians

Democratic government needs parties parties do not need democracy.

He shortly found himself arrived at politics and from politics it was an easy step to silence.

Gough was a serious student but found time to gain a blue in rowing he was later to say that the sport was an apt one for men in public life because you could face one way while going in the other.

Do not wait for a coronation the greatest emperors crown themselves.

Being political doesn’t only or principally mean caring what party wins the next election to be political is to care about the happiness of strangers.

Politics is a slippery ground they that wish to walk on this ground must walk with due care and courage!

Politics is a mirror with an untamed tongue they that wish to walk in front of it must be mindful this!

Thane had never been one of the idealists he'd accepted Wedge Antilles's invitation not because he believed the Rebellion was pure good but because he'd learned the Empire was pure evil.

Power does not corrupt it merely elevates the degree in which something is done that has already been pursued.

Good intentions are ubiquitous in politics what is scarce is accurate beliefs.

We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?

It is not enough to win a war it is more important to organize the peace.

Wars come and go politics endure.

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.

No one is more qualified than you are to decide how you live no one should be able to vote on what you do with your time and your potential unless you invite them to.

I believe in only one thing: liberty but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

Violence is the power of the state imagination and non-violence the power of civil society.

A political battle is merely a skirmish fought with muskets a philosophical battle is a nuclear war.

The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact it is actually our truisms that are untrue.

One thing I love about politicians they won't allow the truth to be obscured by a bunch of facts.

Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.

With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty and its environmental politics.

All too often, the conversation about appropriate and balanced environmental stewardship gets caught up in partisan politics. Yet, this conversation is key to the preservation of our great country for generations to come, as important as ensuring we have fiscally responsible policies to secure our future.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.

When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I couldn't find a drop of the charged politics that drives so many environmental conversations in Washington.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

Only the victor gets to write history where half of the facts are distorted and the other half invented.

Half of the people lie with their lips the other half with their tears

We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.

a kind of emptiness existed in the center of my bagel really it was just the hole that's in the middle of all bagels 'i need to go read my blog to find out what my politics are

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement he is a ranter.

Tolerance means to have the heart open to all differences it is the honorable attitude of receiving another's opinion in order to appreciate it it is the generous willingness to reach an agreement for the common good. Tolerance is the most precious virtue of democracy.

Thus the successful bid to gain access to marriage effectively strengthens marital status as a state-sanctioned condition for the exercise of certain kinds of rights and entitlements it strengthens the hand of the state in the regulation of human sexual behavior and it emboldens the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate forms of partnership and kinship.

far too many politicians suffer from foot and mouth disease they always put a foot in their mouths

Courage sometimes skips a whole generation make sure it doesn't happen to your's. Make your stand & make it now.

The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.

The role of an activist is not to lead the masses with a flag draped around his or her shoulders. Activists meet a few people at a time in a coffee shop to explain in hushed tones why they should believe when no one else does. An activist’s moment is not the moment of change it is the period when change seems impossible.

Television hols up a mirror to the true nature of family life today. For the first time people see themselves reflected and refracted within its curved glass screen: helping them to define who the are and how they should behave. The introduction of the TV dinner and the TV tray means that families can now watch themselves while they eat. Behavior patterns start to undergo a radical alteration even as they are being affirmed a rescheduling of life in the suburban living room has taken place.

Great charismatic leaders don't just say what voters want to hear they say what voters want to say.

Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages like honey their words on the tongue give due savour.”{Source: A Green Desert Father}

There are two things that turn a boy into a man the size of his dick and the level of his patience.

It was worse than a crime it was a blunder.

Poverty can be brought about by law it cannot be forbidden by law.

Three things at least they [good politicians] must require the first is back-bone the second is back-bone and the third is back-bone.

the fact that every people feel itself threatened by the others gives the state it's definite unifying powers it depends upon the instinct of self-preservation of society itself the latent external crisis enables it to get the upper hand in internal crises

What conclusion is to be drawn from this paradox so worthy of being born in our time and what will become of virtue when one has to get rich at all cost?The ancient political thinkers forever spoke of morals and of virtue ours speak only of commerce and money.

A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough compassionate if we care enough successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character we cannot alter its inevitability.

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time who still questions the power of our Democracy Tonight is your answer.

I like to judge people and it was clear to me that Colin’s life has been about as exciting as a cluster headache. You can tell this just from his humour tumour which runs through every conversation you have with him. I got the impression that Colin had arrived at his early fifties resenting the fact that he’s spent his entire career worshiping at the altar of Dynasty PLC. But he is now so indoctrinated by the world of corporate banking that he’s forgotten how to express the real him. This is wha

I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.

It's that evil twin part of me that always comes out at the absolute wrong political moment, like a demon possessing my soul; it exhibits itself as an arrogance or disdain or obnoxiousness or meanness or anger or pettiness - all traits that are lethal in politics.

The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.

I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark.

When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers.

In politics you learn to always smile.

Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc.

Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

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

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Merkel is an amazing woman, very experienced in international politics.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Politics is not about power.

I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.

I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

For those of you who still believe in the Easter Bunny and that the letters that appear in your local newspaper come from concerned citizens who really care, I've got troubling news. At least in politics, most of the letters that get published on the letters-to-the-editor page originate in the campaign headquarters of the candidates.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.