Quotes on Politics

The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

The new rule in American politics is that no one can make it to the White House without the Hispanic vote.

Time makes more converts than reason.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the present day, and on the same question which now divides our own country; that these will continue through all future time; that every one takes his side in favor of the many, or of the few, according to his constitution, and the circumstances in which he is placed.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

You might not be a big fan of politics, but you can still participate. All you need to do is vote for people you believe will work on these issues, and if they don't work the way they should, then it is your responsibility to call them, organize a town hall, and demand that they show up - hold them accountable.

Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.