Quotes on Great Political

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition. All the great religions, all the great movements, all the great political ideology, say let us make the human being as equal as possible. In fact, he is not equal, never will be.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.