Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis D. Brandeis

We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.

Mahatma Gandhi

The best politics is right action.

Madame de Stael

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Patriotism corrupts history.

Hilaire Belloc

The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds.

Hilaire Belloc

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Greg Boyle

All politics are local, and so in church.

James Reston

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

Joseph P. Kennedy III

There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.

Stephen Breyer

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

Calvin Klein

I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.

A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics.

Tommy Lee Jones

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

Charles H. Percy

Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

Caspar Weinberger

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

Dennis Miller

Al Gore couldn't be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator

Ed Koch

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

Charles Krauthammer

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Billy Joel

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

over presidential politics ''is not something we want to participate in.

W. C. Fields

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

Adlai E. Stevenson

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Nicolle Wallace

I don't think that a woman in politics exists or thrives on her own.

Nicolle Wallace

I think politics is like an X-ray machine: Everything is found out eventually.

Andrew Lansley

I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

Oliver Kahn

This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

Iain Duncan Smith

No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

Elizabeth Warren

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.

Wale

If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

Henry Adams

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.