Quotes on Politics

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

Growing up, I never ever thought that I would or could or should be involved in politics. I didn't see anyone who looked like me in spaces of power.

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

To make films, you have to have something to say. To have something to say, you have to be a student of life. And to be a student of life, you have to be feeding yourself with what life, politics, society, and your family fuels you with.