Quotes About Politics

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.