Political Sayings

Of course, I shall be a candidate for president.

The only reason I have ever been in politics is because I have wanted to serve the people.

I don't think a woman should be in politics. They are too emotional. They should be home taking care of their children.

I don't think any man should be President for more than two terms. It's too much power for one man.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical, and destructive than one, even if he is a tyrant.

Our regime is a democracy, but a democracy with discipline.

I don't think there's any difference between a man and a woman in politics, except that a woman has to work harder to prove herself.

The great work of national reconstruction must be carried out in three stages: military rule, political tutelage, and constitutional government.

The Emperor should not be involved in politics.

A government that ignores its people's needs is a government that will fall.

I am a Republican, and I shall die a Republican.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best.

The democratic movement is the inheritance of the Christian movement.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

The government of a country by a mere numerical majority, is a thing which cannot be permanent.

All oppression creates a state of war.

Totalitarianism is an ideology, not a government.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.