Politics Quotes

I am confident that Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana will open the doors of good politics.

Good people should come into politics. They should come with mission not with ambition.

Congress' dynastic politics has shattered the hopes & aspirations of people. Congress hides behind the veil of secularism whenever its governance falters and its misconduct is exposed. This will no longer go unchallenged. The younger generation will not accept these actions of Congress!

When opponents keep harping on one point, it is a sure sign of success!

The Medici created and destroyed me.

Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.

The heart of a statesman must be in his head.

I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

In politics, an absurdity is not an impediment.

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.

Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air; a conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward; . . . a liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American People.