Politics Quotes

The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent stands behind the hierarchy of laws. In one situation, the population is regimented into acquiescence. In the other, the population voluntarily establishes a contract with Parliament. For this reason, one is called a regime and the other, a government. Martial law rests on the sanction of force and not on the sanction of law.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

A regime that can suspend or abrogate the constitution and run the country on its whims and caprice should be ashamed of bringing on its lips the word "law". It is like prescribing a punishment for adultery after raping the country. It is like saying that Holy Quran is suspended nobody can escape from the Hadees.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

I was born in the house my father built.

Richard M. Nixon

It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.

Glenn Greenwald

Our laws are like the software that runs our country. All the laws for a country, together, are called its legal code, just like computer software is written using code.

Liz Long

Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.

Stephen Colbert

My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.

Stephen Colbert

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

Glenn Greenwald

The New START accord cuts the strategic nuclear arsenals on each side to 1,550 warheads. Can any of its critics make a case that our security would be imperiled if, the very next day, Obama and Medvedev made moves to take the levels down to 1,000—then to 500?If so, come show us the math. If not, it may be time to stop making arms control so politically complicated—time to stop letting arms control get in the way of disarmament.

A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.

Glenn Greenwald

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists.

Stephen Colbert

To those who will decide if he should be tried for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' -the House of Representatives-And to those who would sit in judgment at such a trial if the House impeaches -the Senate-And to the man who would preside at such an impeachment trial -the Chief Justice of the United States, Warren Burger-And to the nation...The President said, 'I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the American people elected me to do for the people of the United States.'- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

With each passing day, I become more and more convinced that the greatest threat to American freedom is the United States government.

Michelle Templet

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

Stephen Colbert

It seems to be Latin American destiny to always have the United States say 'amen.

A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.

Alan Ryan

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

Saul D. Alinsky

To crank up a noisy bad stance out in a place like San Francisco and start yelling about “getting things done in Washington” is like sitting far back in the end zone seats at the Super Bowl and screaming at the Miami linebackers “Stop Duane Thomas!

Hunter S. Thompson

The enemy was not the Klan but the inside-outside lock that racism and classism had on the minds of the people: It operated from the inside through self-hate and self-doubt, and from the outside through the police, carnivorous landlords, and the welfare system.

Junius Williams

We are the dead . Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone.

There is no politically neutral fence available for us to sit on, and our attempts to do so have the consequence (intended or not) of supporting the existing political system.

Monsters always make more trouble before they die.

Freedom isn't a static point. It's spectrum from absolute to none at all, and is usually inversely proportional to safety.

I always voted at my party's call And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Man is by nature a civic animal.

Aristotle

Politics is not an exact science.

Otto von Bismarck

A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation.

James Freeman Clarke

It is a condition which confronts us - not a theory.

Grover Cleveland

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Benjamin Disraeli

Damned Neuters in their Middle way of Steering Are neither Fish nor Flesh nor good Red Herring.

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

Like an armed warrior like a plumed knight James G. Blaine marched down the halls of American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country and the malign-ers of his honor.

Charles J. Ingersoll

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Daniel O'Connell

Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.

Wendell Phillips

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

The statesman shears the sheep the politician skins them.

Austin O'Malley

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

William Shakespeare

If nominated I will not accept if elected I will not serve.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?

William Thackeray

As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?

William M. Tweed

A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.

A conservative is a Democrat who's been mugged. I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip isn't it?

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money.

I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it?

Bob Hope

Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.

John Nance Garner

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

William Whitelaw

The prerequisites for being in the diplomatic corps are the ability to handle protocol alcohol and Geritol.

Wallace Rowling

As a politician he does everything to keep out of trouble often by not asking questions. However it does bother him that every time the doorbell rings his maid hides in the dryer.

Jay Leno

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city it might be better to change the locks.

He is so aware of being politically correct he refers to a taco as Hispanic food.

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

Clarence Darrow

Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees.

Jay Leno

Unlike Churchill I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice - and they poisoned him.

What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics

Anonymous

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