Politics Quotes

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

Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Diplomacy...the art of restraining power.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority,
let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.