Political Motives Quotes

The great wall of China was built just as much to keep the Chinese in as to keep the barbarians out.

I am guilty of killing Sadat and I admit that. I am proud of it because the cause of religion was at stake.

Wars are not a choice we make for no reason.

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

While President Obama assumes that at their core the Republican leadership team is just trying to do what's best for America, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner assume that the president is cynically trying to secure his own reelection, power, and legacy.

President Obama, I think, wanted what was best for the country, but I think it didn't work well. I think we have the death spiral, and I think particularly premiums in the individual market are going through the roof. Republicans want what's best for the country, but I think they're not fixing the death spiral of Obamacare. They're going to subsidize it with a lot of taxpayer money. So, characterizing something as mean or generous I think goes to people's motives, and I think it is sort of why we have such an angry country now. We think that people have ill motives.

Modern young news consumers want not only to know what happened but why it happened.

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Those who administer or possess governing power, always try to surround their high-handed actions with a cloak of legality, and to persuade the people that they act from good motives; this they are easily able to effect when they are the sole interpreters of the law;

Everything is politics.

Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.

I think maybe the people in elected positions are more interested in preserving their jobs than in doing the best job possible.

For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, They arrive at their conclusions—largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none: But sometimes in a smoking-room, one learns why things were done.

I have been accused of acting out of partisan political motives.

We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy ... not for the real reason: because the Arab Muslims who attacked us hate our Middle Eastern foreign policy.

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

The last thing you want is to have to make a decision for political purposes.

It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.

You think Trump cares if you leave? He wants power, not prosperity.

I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington.

Terrorists are dangerous, not because they are immoral or amoral but because they are hyper moral. They justify their behavior in profoundly moral language.

I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the images we project really do have resonance. It's the reason why I don't use the term jihadist to refer to terrorists. It gives them the religious legitimacy they so desperately seek, but I ain't gonna give it to them.

In the statement accompanying the text of Lahore Conspiracy Case Ordinance, the Viceroy had stated that the accused in this case were trying to bring both law and justice into contempt. The situation afforded us an opportunity to show to the public whether we were trying to bring law into contempt or whether others were doing so.