Famous Quotes About politics

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing joy, rage, fear triumph, yearning and confusion.

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.