Political Machine Quotes

#1. ...empires were formed by wars of conquest, but ruled by deception."
The Professor, Hope's great-uncle and the builder of the time-machine.

Eve Human

#2. Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance.

Ivor Brown

#3. I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

Bella Abzug

#4. The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Will Durant

#5. An inability to understand the weakness in his fellow men that left him barely more than competent in the internecine feuding at the heart of the Aelerian political machine. It

Daniel Polansky

#6. When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it easier to kill them. Which is understandable and it's happened this way throughout history.

Alexander Siddig

#7. Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

C. Wright Mills

#8. It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.

David Galula

#9. Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.

Mark Twain

#10. This political line is wholly neo-Soviet: human beings do not have independent existences, they are cogs in the machine whose function is to implement unquestioningly whatever political escapades those in power dream up. Cogs have no rights. Not even to dignity in death.

Anna Politkovskaya

#11. When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice.

Julie Benz

#12. All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

William S. Burroughs

#13. I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Dizzy Gillespie

#14. There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behavior seeping out from whatever clanking political machine has been dropped on it from above.

Richard K. Morgan

#15. I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

Aneurin Bevan

#16. Straight? So is spaghetti until you heat it up

Jet Mykles

#17. The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.

Phyllis Schlafly

#18. ABOYNE (vb.)
To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.

Douglas Adams

#19. Mike Huckabee said he's the only person who has fought the Clinton political machine and won. As opposed to Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, who's the only person who fought a fax machine and lost.

Jimmy Fallon

#20. I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.

John Edwards

#21. I don't - you know, I'm very disillusioned with our political system. If we don't wake up in America and realize that we have to vote out of our courage and integrity for candidates who reflect our own beatitudes, and not the beatitudes of the war machine and the corporations, we are - we're doomed.

Cindy Sheehan

#22. Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.

Henry Knox

#23. No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.

George Washington

#24. We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.

Howard Dean

#25. I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.

Robert Caro

#26. I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

Henry Louis Gates