Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [241-260] of 769 Politics quotesPolitics QuotesPolitics Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.~ John Foster Dulles A liberal's like to be laxWhen recommending a tax.With a glut in his heartAnd his brain low a quart,He will give youthe shirts off our backs.~ F. R. Duplantier Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.~ Will Durant Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant.~ Clint Eastwood A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.~ Abba Eban Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.~ Bob Edwards You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.~ John Ehrlichman Government of the self was the original basis for republican government, reflecting the view that civil society was much more than politics. Society was made up of men and women who gave order to their lives by entering into associations on a voluntary basis, quite apart from government, for all the various reasons of fellowship, philanthrophy, faith and commerce.~ Hans L. Eicholz Today's problems cannot be solved by thinking the way we thought when we created them.~ Albert Einstein The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses.~ Albert Einstein It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.~ Albert Einstein We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Wherever there’s a disagreement among Republicans, I’m for one of those disagreements. I’m all for it. The president’s with Russia? I’m with John McCain and Lindsey Graham, I’m for NATO! Why? [It’s a] wedge. Wedges have to be schisms, schisms have to be divides.~ Rahm Emanuel You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.~ Rahm Emanuel The task of government in this enlightened time does not extend to actually dealing with problems. Solving problems might put bureaucrats out of work. No, the task of government is to make it look as though problems have been solved, while continuing to keep the maximum number of consultants and bureaucrats employed dealing with them.~ Bob Emmers While it would be silly and ungracious to insist that intelligent deliberation on public issues is nowhere found in modern communities, it would be naive to imagine that wise deliberation can survive the constant pounding from self-interested political behavior. Benevolence in public institutions has a short half-life no matter how noble its original intentions." and "Once [a] program is in place, its day-to-day administration falls into the hands of a professional cadre besieged by powerful interest groups whose influence grows as public interest wanes. . . . A slow process of disintegration and reconfiguration sets in, transforming and expanding a program from within.~ Richard A. Epstein It shall be unlawful for any public secondary school which receives Federal financial assistance and which has a limited open forum, to deny equal access or a fair opportunity to, or discriminate against, any students who wish to conduct a meeting within that limited open forum on the basis of the religious, political, philosophical, or other content of the speech at such meeting.~ Equal Access Act Once 'our people' get themselves into a position to make policy, they cease being 'our people'.~ M. Stanton Evans Legislators like pork because it helps them get reelected. They are interested in administrative details because long tenure promotes narrow specialization. The constituent service racket allows lawmakers to ignore big problems by fixing small ones. In becoming ombudsman -- glorified errand boys, -- incumbents build up enough good will for most to survive even a watershed year like 1992. By ending congressional careerism, term limits will encourage attention to larger legislative issues. By changing the understanding of the legislator's role, term limits are probably the most effective single reform that can be imposed on Congress. And imposed it will have to be: While great majorities of the American people support term limits, lawmakers oppose them in even larger proportions. With a career Congress, voters face a dilemma: They do not like paying taxes to Washington and hoping to get them back in the form of pork and entitlements, but as long as the system is rigged, it makes sense to vote for the incumbent to maximize your own take. Congressmen face a similar dilemma: Take the easy road to reelection or face the often difficult choices of balancing local and national interests. Take away the career mindset and both representatives and voters can make choices based on the merits of each case. ... In fact, one of the biggest benefits of non-professional legislators is that they would be unlikely to join with the bureaucrats and special interests in blowing smoke at the voters.~ Eric Felton Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print