A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.George Bernard Shaw
Senator McCarthy's reckless and unfounded attempt to impugn my loyalty is just one more example of his typical tactic of attempting to tie up to Communism anyone who disagrees with him.Edward R. Murrow
The ultimate cost of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.Plato
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.Plato
Higher taxes of any kind, direct or indirect, are bad economics and even worse politics.Milton Friedman
One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.Franz Kafka
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.Thomas Sowell
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.Groucho Marx
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.Robert E. Lee
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.George Orwell
In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.Thomas Sowell
Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.Shane Smith
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.Molly Ivins
The role of money in politics is a major problem and particularly the role of unchecked anonymous money.Jon Ossoff
The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.Molly Ivins
I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.Phil Gramm
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.Ronald Reagan
Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.Olympia Snowe
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money.P. J. O'Rourke
In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.Bernie Sanders
People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.Thomas Sowell
I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are all the dimensions of life. But politics is one among others.Mario Vargas Llosa
Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office.Henry Kissinger
It's been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: 'I'm going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.' You've just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.John Kennedy
Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.Pope Francis
I think those who have followed my political life would have known that I don't believe in just blind loyalty.Tan Cheng Bock
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.Shirley Chisholm
Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.Thomas Sowell
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.Plato