Political Suicide Quotes

Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.

Wars are hard to exit. Once a war against poverty, crime, or terrorism is launched. Announcing a unilateral truce is usually political suicide. Presidents get boxed into absolutist policies in which compromise is impossible and victory is the only acceptable outcome.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

I'm convinced Mr. Reagan would never be elected- I don't think his views are held by a majority of the American people...it's the Republican party that's going to be committing suicide by nominating candidates of that genre.

Political courage is not political suicide.

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

Mr. President at this time it is suicide, murder, and will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountain to ocean, and legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death.

I try to put myself in others' shoes: How does any country give up any sovereignty and expect to survive as a government? I don't think that any Philippine president, or any leader for that matter, can afford to give up any portion of territorial sovereignty. That would be political suicide.

Carter took a poke at the Soviet bear and knocked out the American farmer.

Social Security is the third rail of American politics. Touch it and you die.

If the Democratic Party follows the path of open borders, then the Democratic Party is going to engage in self-immolation.

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.

The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.

Mr. President, we need to be strong and firm, but that doesn't mean you have to commit political suicide.

The Syrians lost out because they happened to have their revolution during an election cycle in America, France, and bizarrely, some kind of election cycle in Russia. Obama wasn't going to be seen to commit anything to Syria, that would be political suicide, but he's also got a Nobel Peace Prize sitting on his mantelpiece.