Quotes on Political

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.