Quotes on Political

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his truths.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.