Quotes on Politics

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. - They deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.