politics Quotes

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.

You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.