Oriana Fallaci Quotes

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

America has been betrayed. We've been betrayed by the leadership that Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton have provided to this country over the last number of years. Think about just what's happened today.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts was him seeing what could be best for his state, but maybe it didn't work out as well.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

Exploitation and government are two inseparable expressions of what is called politics.

I have the disease called politics.

Change: In politics, the substitution of one disappointment for another.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.