Quotes on Politics

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

To change masters is not to be free.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

When I was very young, I took no interest in party politics. My line of interest was how can you be part of an influence to the society that you live in.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

There is no longer a clear, bright line dividing America's domestic concerns and America's foreign policy concerns...If we want America to stay on the right track, if we want other people to be on that track and have the chance to enjoy peace and prosperity, we have no choice but to try to lead the train.

If there has been any progress in the Chinese society and politics over the last 20 years, it is all because the citizens have been pushing for change.

You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.