Quotes on Political

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?

The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.

All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay. The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young.