Quotes about Politics

Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

Life is deep, but our current politics is shallow. The history of this country is like the stuff of great art and philosophy, while our current politics is more on the level of gossip magazines. It is shallow and tawdry, an unworthy vehicle for grappling with the meaning of what we are going through. We need to think more deeply if we're to create more powerfully. We need to focus on a broader understanding of the American story and commit ourselves to rewriting it.

What is going on in America today is not just a political contest; it is a spiritual contest.

That is why a new American revolution is a revolution of consciousness, and a new American politics is a politics of love.

Now more than ever God's people must be committed to being gospel centered. Jesus can no longer be out there somewhere on the horizon as we look to culture, religion, politics, spirituality, or morality for our true north.

Politicians tell people what they want to hear, prophets tell people what they need to hear.

The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, and many which appear to be oligarchical are the ruin of oligarchies. Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.

It is the legislator's task to frame a society which shall make the good life possible. Politics for Aristotle is not a struggle between individuals or classes for power, nor a device for getting done such elementary tasks as the maintenance of order and security without too great encroachments on individual liberty.

All political problems can be solved by the correct application of power.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.