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Politics Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.
- Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty…
- God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.
- Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class.
- Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to…
- Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And…
- Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at…
- And, by the way, how come all the people who were so in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament are so opposed to unilateral protection against…
- The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama…
- The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the…
- When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
- The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
- Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
- The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for…
- Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.
- Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government,…
- Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite…
- Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.
- Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character…
- Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
- The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
- Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
- I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
- Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle