Politics Quotes

"What the capitalist system demands is not what is good for the people, but what is good for business."

"Men have always been willing to sacrifice the truth for the sake of profit."

"The capitalist will always choose profit over principle unless forced to do otherwise."

"Politics is the art of compromise and the pursuit of the common good."

"Where the roots of private profit are deep and mighty, a flux of national power and direction will inevitably follow."

"I see America spread across the continent to the Pacific, a nation of nations."

"Laws are like sausages; it is better not to see them being made."

"Democracy is the scaffold upon which we build worlds."

"The form of the state is determined by the quality of the people."

"One destiny of America is to be a place where the workers own the means of production."

"The enemy of democracy is not the radical, but the indifferent."

"In the United States the country changes but the population remains the same."

"America took him away and Europe spat him out."

"I've never believed that I had to be a separatist to be a nationalist."

"Politics is personal and personal is political."

"Politics is everybody's business."

"The oppressed and the oppressor are locked in an infamous embrace."

"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be."

"The personal is political; everything connects."

"Democracy dies when citizens stop asking questions."

"The people are the republic; without them, government is merely machinery."

"The voice of dissent is the voice of democracy."

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."

"The personal is political, and the political is personal."

"Political change begins with personal transformation."

"A politician should never tell a lie unless it is for the good of the people."

"The greatest democracy is one where all voices are heard."

"Politics is the art of the possible."

"The personal is political."

"Politics is how we share power."