Politics Quotes
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"The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925."
"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right."
"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels."
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
"The first duty of a man is to think for himself"
"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."
"Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker"
"You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena."
"If love had feathers and tasted like dog food, then I suggest you wear shoes with your banana pudding. (This statement also defines my political beliefs)."
"For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them."
"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
"It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."[I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]"
"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them."
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
"It’s scary to be a woman on a blind date. For all she knows the man she is meeting up with could be a rapist, a murderer, or, God forbid, a politician."
"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
"I’m on a government watch list. But I’m not interested, because government watches only work twenty minutes out of every hour."
"I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win."
"A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?"
"Every politician has a promising career. Unfortunately, most of them do not keep those promises."
"I always look like I’m lying. I was born with a politician’s face. You’ll know I’m in love when I have a Vote For Me look in my eyes."
"Politically, Republicans and Democrats are at opposite ends. One’s a burp and the other’s a fart."
"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."
"I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally."
"I had a dream about you. You were storing my brain in a pickle jar in the fridge, and I only discovered it when I went to garnish my hamburger. Mindless and hungry, I was a US politician’s ideal voter."
"My hobbies include rubbing my nipples across a cheese grater, meeting cat ladies on Tinder, and voting for either Democrat or Republican every four years. You could say I am a torture enthusiast."
"I believe in true love. But my opinion is tainted, because I also believe in Bigfoot, aliens, and in the existence of honest politicians."
"I’m going to go out on a limb and say that’s the best place to hang a noose. More politicians need to be sticking their necks out for us."
"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."
"Nine out of ten politicians are thieves. The tenth politician is a liar, and the one who conducted the survey."
"If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it."
"A slinky is a toy made for stairs, but that’s entirely too tiresome. What about a toy for escalators that doesn’t move and does nothing and that’s the whole point? I think Americans would relate to and embrace that mentality."
"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."
"You haven’t seen nothing until you’ve seen zero. You also haven’t seen nothing until you’ve seen all the love I have for politicians."
"Politically, I feel out of touch, like I’m wearing gloves—boxing gloves. We need to go bareknuckle to beat back the entrenched establishment."
"An empty coffee cup is full of hope. Now there’s something worth voting for."
"The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them."
"The love of my life has made me the happiest man ever. This ever-smiling man/mannequin is so happy because he’s got no brain, and in this way is identical to anyone who still rah-rahs for either a Republican or a Democrat."
"There are pockets of wealth in this country. Mostly those pockets are in the politicians’ pants."
"I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?"
"When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late."
"Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals, and to imagine that together we can do great things.In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible."
"He’s right-handed, so I told him to draw his self-portrait with his left hand, because it’d look so ugly it’d look realistic. Since he’s a DC politician, I figured a little reality was needed in his life."
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