Quotes about "Politics & Government"

There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd. ”

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed. ”

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. ”

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. ”

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. ”

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. ”

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ”

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. ”

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. ”

I still don't have a car. I still travel by public transport. I take autos to travel to and fro for recordings. ”