Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination. So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining 'enough.' The predictable result is that they always get more, and it's never enough.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word, won. That's pretty much the full argument: Restate a factual proposition with sneering quote marks.

Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

Like the archers of Agincourt, John O'Neal and the 254 Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman.

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.

Make that money run like honey on your tongue.

Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.

Make no mistake about those who call themselves anti Zionist are anti Semitic.

Making mistakes is how you learn.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths

Maybe democrats will eventually turn on Obamacare when they realize you might need a photo I.D. to participate in the program.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

Men in high levels of government seldom surf.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.

Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into submission? How about an explanation, Mr Moore?

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

Michael Moore simultaneously represents everything I detest in a human being and everything I feel obligated to defend in an American. Quite simply, it is that stupid moron's right to be that utterly, completely wrong.

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.

Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger, you cannot even see where it's coming from as it moves swiftly towards you.

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Money honey, if you want to get along with me.

Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.