Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [81-100] of 769 Politics quotesPolitics QuotesPolitics Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Politics is the art of looking for trouble,finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. ~ Ernest Benn Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution.~ W. Lance Bennett Purveyors of political correctness will, in the final analysis, not even allow others their judgments... They celebrate “difference,” but they will not allow people truly to be different -- to think differently, and to say what they think.~ Mark Berley Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.~ Georges Bernanos Collectivism is the political theory that states that the will of the people is omnipotent, an individual must obey; that society as a whole, not the individual, is the unit of moral value. ... Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.~ Andrew Bernstein You know all what I'm about to, what I've said, and you know what I've done, and you know what we're doing, and you know -- I know what you're doing.~ Joe Biden Republicans don't know how to defend morally an individual's right to achieve wealth and to keep it, and that is why they fail. ... It's part and parcel with their ambivalence over the individualist heritage of the nation. ... One of the things that people have to understand is that the American Revolution was truly an epic revolution in the way individuals were perceived in relation to the rest of the society. Throughout history individuals had always been cogs in some machine; they'd always been something to be sacrificed for the king, the tribe, the gang, the chieftain, the society around them, the race, whatever, and the real revolution, in America especially, was a moral revolution. It was a moral revolution in that ... suddenly, with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the individual, his life, his well-being, his property, his happiness became central to our values, and that is what really made America unique. People came here from all over the world to try to escape the kind of oppression they had and experienced in the past. They came here for freedom; they came here for self-expression and self-realization, and America offered them that kind of a place.~ Robert Bidinotto Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.~ Ambrose Bierce Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.~ Ambrose Bierce Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.~ Ambrose Bierce Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.~ Ambrose Bierce Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.~ Ambrose Bierce Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law.~ Henry Campbell Black The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges’ views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice.~ Justice Hugo L. Black Whatever power you give politicians and bureaucrats to use against other people will eventually be used by future politicians and bureaucrats against you.~ Michael Boldin Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.~ Napoleon Bonaparte I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of people would die for Him.~ Napoleon Bonaparte Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.~ Dr. Jim Boren Every bureaucrat has a constitutional right to fuzzify, profundify and drivelate. It's a part of our freedom of speech...If people can understand what is being said in Washington, they might want to take over their own government again.~ Dr. Jim Boren When in charge, ponder... When in trouble, delegate... When in doubt, mumble.~ Dr. Jim Boren Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print