Quotes on Politics

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from its proper function, but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose. The law has become a tool for every kind of greed. Instead of preventing crime, the law itself is guilty of the abuses it is supposed to punish. If this is true, it is a serious matter, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.

The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.