Politics Quotes – Insights and Reflections on Politics

"Whoever has the power in society determines what can be studied, determines what can be observed, determines what can be thought. Scientists fall in line with the dominant power structure. They have to because the power structure pays the bills."

Danny Minot

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.

From time to time we've been tempted to believe, that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people.

Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?

All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden.

The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price."

Ronald Reagan

"The Jesuits are the only religious order in the Church of Rome…which has lain under the ban of the [‘White’] Pope, or which has been expelled from any country because of its interference in politics. Hence we may expect to find that to obtain political power forms a main feature in the plans of the Society [of Jesus – i.e., the Jesuit Order]."

Margaret Anna Cusack

"Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution."

W. Lance Bennett

"How long shall the Roman Catholic Hierarchy play the people for fools? Shall the government be of the people, for the people, and by the people, or by the pope? Let’s not let the pope of Rome name our President for us. Lovers of your country, beware of Jesuitical intrigues, the political power of Romanism, and the honeyed words of politicians reaching after the presidency!"

Jeremiah J. Crowley

"Today's political class in Germany is characterized by an excess of careerism and self-importance, and by an excessive desire to appear on talk shows."

Helmut Schmidt

"Politicians and journalists. These are both categories of people to be approached with the utmost caution: for both range from near-statesmen to near-criminals. And the average remains average."

Helmut Schmidt

"We are governed by limited people, whom limited people help to achieve majorities, with whom they make policies for limited people. This is the logic inherent in democracies, because due to the fundamental structure of the state form, in the end the dumbest prevail."

Ramin Peymani

"A planetary regime might be given the authority to determine the optimal population for the world as a whole and for each region, and to allocate shares to various countries within their regional boundaries. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the regime would have some power to enforce agreed limits."

John Holdren

"70% of the population — namely the lower 70% on the income and wealth scale — have absolutely no influence on political decisions. Yes, it is no wonder that the population sinks into apathy and lethargy and then seeks refuge in some political positions with an ugly face, hoping that through them they can regain some influence at all."

Prof. Rainer Mausfeld

"Those who are not interested in politics will be forever ruled by those who are."

G. Edward Griffin

"We have the best government that money can buy."

Mark Twain

"Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings."

Hannah Arendt

"We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve"

Eisenhower

"The decisive means for politics is violence."

Max Weber

"Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state."

Max Weber

"Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. "We have a single system," he wrote, and "in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses.""

Gore Vidal

"The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people."

John Lennon