Politics Quotes

It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.

I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What’s the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.