916 quotes found
“Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.”
“The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. ”
“[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.”
“Don't let them tell us stories”
“Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?""Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.”
“We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom....Our political leaders will know our priorities on...”
“I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am. ”
“Government should do a few things, and do them right”
“Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.”
“He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself, for he brings such a power into being either by design or by force, and both of these elements are suspects to the one whom he has made power...”
“It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.”
“When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the ...”
“Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.”
“Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is ...”
“Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.”
“That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness i...”
“If two parties with two sets of bad ideas cooperate, the result is not good policy, but policy that is extremely bad. What we really need are correct economic and politcal ideas, regardless of the ...”
“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”
“diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.”
“World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.”
