politics Quotes

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.