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Politics Quotes Page 2Page: 1 2 The popularity of political quotes is not surprising. On a daily basis, there are items in the news addressing the politics of the day. Most people want politicians to do more to help their individual districts. There are those who believe the government is too big and that the government should not be doing as much as it is doing. These political quotes put these issues on the front burner for all to see. As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
The secret of getting things done is to act!
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm, and something else when he leaves.
Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it's a sport.
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an inkblot.
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
In politics the middle way is none at all.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated, it has blighted a hundred.
You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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