Quotes about Politics

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.

The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.

To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

We will vote for the special interests and say lots of luck but, you're being voted out of power.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.