Political Tool Quotes

Not all negativity is bad. In politics, it's a necessary clarifying tool.

Government is merely a means to an end.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

Regardless of moral considerations, assassination is a wrongheaded tool for a great power, because small powers can use it equally if not more effectively.

A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away.

Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.

Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.

We are using the criminal justice system to try and achieve political ends in this country …. It is part of a vast right wing conspiracy.

Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a tool to garner votes, to convince people they should support one political party or the other, I think that is a huge mistake.

The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.

The political danger of the Internet is that it becomes another tool for special interests.

A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.

I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury.

Sanitation should not be seen as a political tool, but should only be connected to patriotism (rashtrabhakti) and commitment to public health.

Propaganda as a mere tool is no more moral or immoral than a pump handle....the only effective weapon against propaganda on behalf of one policy seems to be propaganda on behalf of an alternative.

The people's army is not merely an organ for fighting; it is also an organ for the political advancement of the party

Truman the bankrupt ... the tool of Boss Pendergast ... the yes-man apologist in the Senate for political gangsters.

The only tool the Democrats have is in the Senate, and it's the filibuster.

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

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

Art should not be a tool of politics, but sometimes art can help make the political climate more open and help society become more free.