Home / Topics / Politics Quotes

Politics Quotes

Browse 9821 quotes about Politics.

Politics Quotes

“Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.”

Men Sometimes Politics Chance Power Failing Events Hair Depends Increase Profit Neglect Great Events

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.”

“A s laws multiply, injustice increases.”

Wisdom Law Politics Economy Increase Injustice Liberalism

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.”

Ifs Care Three Politics Economy Four Percent Increase Take Care Liberalism Accomplished Twelve Efficiency Folds Redesign

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.”

Jobs Politics Realizing Wealth Numbers Economy Labor Function Increase Rate Liberalism

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.”

Giving Wisdom Jobs Politics Company Economy Taxes Labor Increase Bills Productivity Employment Liberalism Ownership Emergencies Incentives

Author:Jack Kemp

“Bring on those tired, labor-plagued, competition-weary companies and ESOP will breathe new life into them. They will find ESOP better than Geritol. It will revitalize what is wrong with capitalism. It will increase productivity. It will improve labor relations. It will promote economic justice. It will save the economic system. It will make our form of government and our concept of freedom prevail over those who don't agree with us.”

“Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.”

Wisdom Faces Politics Economy Increase Pressure Productivity Liberalism Vitality Competitiveness

Author:Charles H. Percy

“Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and he said to him jokingly, "Walter, you'll have a hard time collecting union dues from these machines." and Walter said, "you are going to have more trouble trying to sell automobiles to them." Both of them let it stop there. There was a logical answer to that ... the owners of the machines could buy automobiles and if you increase the number of owners you increase the number of consumers.”

“We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.”

“Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it may be - given the devastation it is wreaking - should be enough to compel all elected leaders to take immediate action.”

“Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.”

Government Age Political Politics Increase Degenerates

Book:The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

“I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.”

Politics Interest Economy Circumstances Increase Slavery Slave Compromise All Time Limitation Combination Liberalism Representation Extensions

Author:Daniel Webster