politics Quotes

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.