Politics Quotes

It is our true policy to steer clear of any permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

The Nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses?

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

The more you read about politics, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

The thing we all have to understand to put these last two years in focus, is that liberals in this country care more about whether European leaders like us than they do about whether terrorists are killing us.

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

We'll never know where John Kerry stands on an issue because he�ll take both sides � all three sides, four sides, however many sides there are � of an issue.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

It is the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism- Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.