Quotes on Politics

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Freedom is participation in power.

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

We need to understand that there is no formula for how women should lead their lives. that is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Every woman deserves the chance to realize her God-given potential.

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.