110 quotes about Politics

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

Noam Chomsky more quotes e-card

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Noam Chomsky more quotes e-card

Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.

Christopher Hitchens more quotes e-card

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

Mahmoud Abbas more quotes e-card

I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

Mahmoud Abbas more quotes e-card

There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.

Mahmoud Abbas more quotes e-card

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

Mahmoud Abbas more quotes e-card

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

Mahmoud Abbas more quotes e-card

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

Mahmoud Abbas more quotes e-card

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

Mahmoud Abbas more quotes e-card

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Mahmoud Abbas more quotes e-card

We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave.

Mahmoud Abbas more quotes e-card

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

Mahmoud Abbas more quotes e-card

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

Hillary Clinton more quotes e-card

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

Hillary Clinton more quotes e-card

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

William J. Clinton more quotes e-card

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Jane Austen more quotes e-card

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

Frederick Douglass more quotes e-card

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Frederick Douglass more quotes e-card

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Groucho Marx more quotes e-card

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Albert Camus more quotes e-card

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Albert Camus more quotes e-card

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force.

George Washington more quotes e-card

Had I been chosen president again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

John Adams more quotes e-card

Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

John Adams more quotes e-card

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus more quotes e-card

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus more quotes e-card

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Margaret Thatcher more quotes e-card

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

Jim Morrison more quotes e-card

We’ve come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn’t move us forward.

Barack Obama more quotes e-card

Race is still a powerful force in this country. Any African American candidate, or any Latino candidate, or Asian candidate or woman candidate confronts a higher threshold in establishing himself to the voters

Barack Obama more quotes e-card

Our enemies are fully aware that they can use oil as a weapon against America . And if we don't take this threat as seriously as the bombs they build or the guns they buy, we will be fighting the War on Terror with one hand tied behind our back.

Barack Obama more quotes e-card

Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.

Barack Obama more quotes e-card

We can't change the way Washington works unless we first change how Congress works.

Barack Obama more quotes e-card

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, "Huh. It works. It makes sense.

Barack Obama more quotes e-card

The country is not as polarized as our politics would suggest.

Barack Obama more quotes e-card

In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.

Barack Obama more quotes e-card

People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.

Barack Obama more quotes e-card

We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.

Barack Obama more quotes e-card

We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent.

Paul Warburg more quotes e-card

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

Jimmy Carter more quotes e-card

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Jimmy Carter more quotes e-card

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Jimmy Carter more quotes e-card

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

Jimmy Carter more quotes e-card

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter more quotes e-card

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Theodore Roosevelt more quotes e-card

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Theodore Roosevelt more quotes e-card

Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Ambrose Bierce more quotes e-card

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Margaret Mead more quotes e-card

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

George Wald more quotes e-card

  
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