“The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.”

Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands – though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

Free men stick their necks out.

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

If, of course, one builds into the concept of an ‘individual’ all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom.

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do – sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the ‘inner contradictions’ of such a system.

The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

The reason the Constitution gives judges life tenure is so they can be independent of political pressures and follow the law.

It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. Im not a politician.

The difference between the very wealthy and the working poor has grown. We raise that minimum wage and we move forward with the vision of this president that we have, which is everyone pays their fair share.

Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

I’ve been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the women’s movement, the civil rights movement, putting an end to unjust wars, and so and so.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.