Political Justification Quotes

The Navy and the foreign office had to find the argument to support the action; it was anxious work.

You cannot compare me to somebody who makes apologies for Hitler. And I don't think Putin is comparable.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

President Bush comes up with a reason a day as to why we are in Iraq.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

When any kind of military action is popular it's because either there's been a very clear, direct threat to us - 9/11 - or an administration uses various hooks to suggest that American interests were directly threatened - like in Panama or Grenada. And sometimes, those hooks are more persuasive than others, but typically, they're not put before Congress.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record?

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

The legal grounds are not near as important as the moral and political grounds, and I can use the courts till you can step on my beard.

Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did period all over his sofa, then there's no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party.

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.

Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.