Politics Quotes

Jesus is the politics of the new age He is about the establishment of a kingdom He is the one who ha...

In fact, even Tillich's socialism was accommodationist because it continued the Constantinian strate...

That which makes the church "radical" and forever "new" is not that the church tends to lean toward ...

The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.

Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician.

My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when...

Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empt...

There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDAC...

Senator John Kyle claiming that over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion.Stephen ...

Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about h...

NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter'...

I don't like the new president who hunts muslim extremists, I like the old president who is a muslim...

Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my f...

I like talking about people who don't have any power and it seems like some of the least powerful pe...

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean ...

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared t...

We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I ...

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, a family is defined as two or more people living together who a...

It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certai...

It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certai...

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, ...

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can...

Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the go...

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're i...

A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.

The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among...

..."Were hostages ever killed?"She shook her head. "Not until the end. When everything...fell apart....

Many criminologists believe that the source of the state’s pacifying effect isn’t just its brute coe...

The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are autho...

You could say I lost my faith in science and progressYou could say I lost my belief in the holy Chur...

If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant pastSecurity in human systems we're told will always...

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

It’s a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called R...

I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. I think...

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a relig...

We had deluded ourselves that perhaps peace might find the Arabs able, unhelped and untaught, to def...

Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same....

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that th...

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. ...

Politic, cautious, and meticulous;full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yell...

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own coun...

Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way...

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the a...

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

What manner of men had lived in those days...who had so eagerly surrendered their sovereignty for a ...

Today, reports of the day’s events are conveyed to the viewing public by way of alternate universes,...

Even now, years later, it's hard to tell why the government stood by and let the city of New Orleans...

My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff.

From a historical point of view, restricting the availability of addictive substances must be seen a...

Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But ...

[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack coca...

The liberal state has no view on whether witchcraft is more valuable than all-in wrestling. Like a t...

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who h...

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

There is, in fact, no need to drag politics into literary theory: as with South African sport, it ha...

What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concer...

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war ...

I personally believe in the power of second chances.

I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up wi...

It's political, sir. Apparently he wants a return to the values and traditions that made the city gr...

Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming mega...

But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate wit...

One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren'...

I also hold a settling of questions by the referendum to be an unsatisfactory procedure, because the...

It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

If this country is really to go forward along the path of social and economic justice, there must be...

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in wit...

Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under ...

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the co...

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not ...

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the s...

Yet through virtuous living man is further ordained to a higher end, which consists in the enjoyment...

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle...

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for wit...

Therefor I doubt not but, if it had been a thing contrary to any man’s right of dominion, or to the ...

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who partici...

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political wo...

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation...

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that th...

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gate...

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors...

The dead should not rule the living.

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in relig...

The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object ...

...never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never saw an instance of one of two disput...

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by de...

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending t...

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder...

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if w...