Famous Quotes - Tags - Politics

  • (1) Do not cry. No matter what. (2) Use your appearance to create an image of strength. (3)... More
  • ... a friend told me that she had read of a woman who had knitted a wash rag for President... More
  • ... feminism is a political term and it must be recognized as such: it is political in women’s... More
  • ... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for... More
  • ... if you’re a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that... More
  • ... liberal intellectuals ... tend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has... More
  • ... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination. More
  • ... the Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do:... More
  • ... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the... More
  • ... the only way in which Mr. Brooke could be coerced into thinking of the right arguments at the... More
  • ... the separation of church and state means separation—absolute and eternal—or it means... More
  • ... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering... More
  • ... we engage in politics because we don’t know anything. This is clearly revealed in the way... More
  • ... what’s been building since the 1980’s is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames... More
  • ... woman’s narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty... More
  • ... women are supposed to be unfit to vote because they are hysterical and emotional and of... More
  • ... [Washington] is always an entertaining spectacle. Look at it now. The present President has... More
  • ...I have never known a “movement” in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm.... More
  • ...I want to see a film, they send the Israeli army reserves to escort me! What kind of life is... More
  • ...I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half... More
  • A candidate once called his opponent “a willful, obstinate, unsavory, obnoxious, pusillanimous,... More
  • A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. More
  • A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only... More
  • A good deal of our politics is physiological. More
  • A half a dozen major wars,
    And forty-five presidents. More
  • A hovering temporizer, that
    Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,
    Inclining to... More
  • A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears;
    see how yond justice... More
  • A new and terrible aristocracy was growing up among them,—the aristocracy of hidden firearms. More
  • A party is perpetually corrupted by personality. More
  • A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship... More
  • A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste. More
  • A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air. A conservative is a man with two... More
  • A statesman is an easy man,
    He tells his lies by rote;
    A journalist makes up his... More
  • A week is a long time in politics. More
  • A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in... More
  • All is politics in this capital. More
  • All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are “up... More
  • Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should... More
  • Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from... More
  • America had no use for Adams because he was eighteenth-century, and yet it worshipped Grant... More
  • An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The... More
  • Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this... More
  • Any campaign—like any good drama—will have its stylized performances. So too will it have one... More
  • Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all... More
  • Are you involved in politics now? Leave that to the writers and to the ugly girls. More
  • As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant... More
  • As to politics, we were like the rest of the country people in England; that is to say, we... More
  • As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money... More
  • At this time in American history, we are like ghosts talking gibberish through different... More
  • Attending upon a prince is as dangerous as keeping company with a tiger. More
  • Avoid this crowd like the plague. And if they quote you, make damn sure they heard you. More
  • Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I’ve... More
  • Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of... More
  • Be factious for redress of all these griefs,
    And I will set this foot of mine as far
    As... More
  • Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed. More
  • Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must... More
  • Before now poetry has taken notice
    Of wars, and what are wars but politics
    Transformed... More
  • Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body. More
  • Being prime minister is a lonely job.... you cannot lead from the crowd. More
  • Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment... More
  • Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something... More
  • Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief. More
  • Bill McKay: I thought the point was to say what I wanted.
    Lucas: Well, it is. But in the... More
  • Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a... More
  • Brutus had rather be a villager
    Than to repute himself a son of Rome
    Under these hard... More
  • But now Nixon has come along and everything I’ve worked for is ruined. There’s a story in the... More
  • Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that... More
  • Circumstances ... give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour and... More
  • Civil dissension is a viperous worm
    That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. More
  • Clear? Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and get me a four-year-old... More
  • Cleopatra’s nose: had it been shorter, the whole aspect of the world would have been altered. More
  • Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. More
  • Colonel [John Charles] Fremont. Not a good picture, but will do to indicate my politics this... More
  • Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time. ...Its idea of meeting a problem is to hold... More
  • Conviction. More
  • Cynical realism—it’s the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable... More
  • Dad and I had breakfast this morning. We had a look at each other’s speeches. He would have... More
  • David: All the reporters are on the bus.
    Lucas: Okay, start the bus then. And drive them over... More
  • Dear Brand: You love laughing; there is a king dead; can you help coming to town? More
  • Demagogue—a vessel containing beer and other liquids. More
  • Dianne’s not one of the boys, but she’s not one of the girls, either. More
  • Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can... More
  • Don’t talk to the people until you’ve listened to the people. More
  • Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to... More
  • Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that... More
  • Every President wants to do right. More
  • Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent,... More
  • Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. More
  • Everything is politics. More
  • Falling in love with a United States Senator is a splendid ordeal. One is nestled snugly into the... More
  • Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and... More
  • Fear, Craft, and Avarice
    Cannot rear a State. More
  • Finality is not the language of politics. More
  • Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. More
  • Following publication of an advertisement of a “Barbacue & Ice” at Beauchamp’s Springs,... More
  • For conspiracy,
    I know not how it tastes, though it be dished
    For me to try how. More
  • For God doth know, and you may partly see,
    How far I am from the desire of this. More
  • For people may not know what they think
    about politics in the Balkans,
    or the vexed... More
  • From the beginning, the placement of [Clarence] Thomas on the high court was seen as a political... More
  • From the way the grass bends, one can know the direction of the wind. More

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