Politics Quotes
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. Politics have no relation to morals. Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
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