Quotes on Politics

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.

I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.

Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.

And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.

What has happened here [aftermath of 9/11] is not war in its traditional sense. This is clearly a crime against humanity. War crimes are crimes which happen in war time. There is a confusion there. This is a crime against humanity because it is deliberate and intentional killing of large numbers of civilians for political or other purposes. That is not tolerable under the international systems. And it should be prosecuted pursuant to the existing laws.

If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.

I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.

If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly without concern.

The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects.

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours....And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

I'm going to be pitching Andy Cohen on a new show for Bravo. We can call it 'Project Pantsuit.'

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?