Politics Quotations

Adolf Hitler

What luck for rulers, that men do not...

Albert Pike

A war for a great principle ennobles a...

Alexander Hamilton Stephens

Those who stand for nothing fall for...

Ally Sheedy

I have the desire to work as an actress,...

Ambrose Bierce

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing...

Ambrose Bierce

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest...

Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men...

Arthur C. Clarke

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected...

Barry Goldwater

I would remind you that extremism in the defense...

Clare Boothe Luce

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue...

Clare Boothe Luce

They say women talk too much. If you have...

Daniel J. Boorstin

As you make your bed, so you must lie...

Daniel J. Boorstin

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never...

Daniel J. Boorstin

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to...

Dante Alighieri

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those...

Dante Alighieri

The secret of getting things done is to...

Dan Quayle

El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising...

Dan Quayle

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward...

Dan Quayle

I deserve respect for the things I did not...

Dan Quayle

I do have a political agenda. It's to have...

Dan Quayle

I have made good judgements in the past. I...

Dan Quayle

I love California, I practically grew up in...

Dan Quayle

I spend a great deal of time with the...

Dan Quayle

I want to be Robin to Bush's...

Dan Quayle

I've never professed to be anything but an average...

Dan Quayle

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms...

Dan Quayle

In George Bush you get experience, and with me...

Dan Quayle

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We...

Dan Quayle

It's time for the human race to enter the...

Dan Quayle

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really...

Dan Quayle

Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At...

Dan Quayle

My friends, no matter how rough the road may...

Dan Quayle

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother...

Dan Quayle

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and...

Dan Quayle

The American people would not want to know of...

Dan Quayle

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's...

Dan Quayle

The other day the President said, I know you've...

Dan Quayle

This election is about who's going to be the...

Dan Quayle

This President is going to lead us out of...

Dan Quayle

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may...

Dan Quayle

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we...

Dan Quayle

We will invest in our people, quality education, job...

Dan Quayle

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not...

Dan Quayle

Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow...

Dan Quayle

What you guys want, I'm...

Dan Quayle

When I have been asked during these last weeks...

Dan Quayle

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday....

Dan Quayle

When you make as many speeches and you talk...

David Geffen

I can't imagine that anything in the future will...

Dick Gregory

In most places in the country, voting is looked...

Doug Larson

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the...

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Oh, that lovely title,...

Edmund Burke

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else...

Edward Kennedy

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just...

Edward Koch

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then...

Edward Koch

If you seek violence, we will seek to put...

Edward Koch

The art of creation is older than the art...

If voting changed anything, they'd make it...

No real social change has ever been brought about...

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one...

Everett Dirksen

A billion here and a billion there, and soon...

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively...

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against...

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good...

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission...

Gary Hart

I think there is one higher office than president...

There is always some fig leaf being...

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do...

Gerhard Schroeder

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the...

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of...

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote....

Hans Hofmann

An idea can only be materialized with the help...

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands...

It has been well said that a hungry man...

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children....

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as...

In this world of sin and sorrow there is...

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep...

When they see me holding fish, they can see...

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from...

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war...

I was a woman in a man's world. I...

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited,...

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid...

Jim Wallis

If the president is going to use so much...

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making...

John F. Kennedy

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government...

John G. Diefenbaker

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly...

John G. Diefenbaker

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No...

John Kenneth Galbraith

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that...

John Kenneth Galbraith

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's...

John Morley

You have not converted a man because you have...

John Quincy Adams

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone,...

John Stuart Mill

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people...

John W. Gardner

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has...

John W. Gardner

When one may pay out over two million dollars...

J. Edgar Hoover

Justice is incidental to law and...

J. Edgar Hoover

We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear...

J. William Fulbright

In a democracy, dissent is an act of...

Kahlil Gibran

Life without liberty is like a body without...

Kahlil Gibran

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers...

Kin Hubbard

We would all like to vote for the best...

Lady Bird Johnson

Every politician should have been born an orphan and...

Leonardo da Vinci

I love those who can smile in trouble, who...

Leo Rosten

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after...

Lord Acton

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts...

Louis Adolphe Thiers

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically...

Louis D. Brandeis

If we desire respect for the law, we must...

Marion Barry

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the...

Mary Ann Mobley

I just don't believe in surgery unless there are...

Matthew Modine

The fact that I happen to be a celebrity...

Matthew Vaughn

I'm not a member of a minority but I...

Maureen Murphy

The reason there are so few female politicians is...

Meg Greenfield

If a politician murders his mother, the first response...

Milton Friedman

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat...

Mother Teresa

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I...

Mother Teresa

The success of love is in the loving -...

Napoleon Bonaparte

He who knows how to flatter also knows how...

Napoleon Bonaparte

I love power. But it is as an artist...

Neal Barnard

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths...

Nelson Mandela

If the United States of America or Britain is...

Newt Gingrich

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you...

Nikita Khrushchev

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to...

Norman Cousins

If the United Nations is to survive, those who...

Oliver Stone

I would vote for the man who's lived life,...

Otto Schily

Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative...

Paddy Chayefsky

Television is democracy at its...

Dana Plato

For the introduction of a new kind of music...

Dana Plato

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in...

Dana Plato

Those who are too smart to engage in politics...

Pope John Paul II

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a...

P. J. O'Rourke

The Democrats are the party that says government will...

P. J. O'Rourke

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the...

Ralph Kiner

You know what they say about Chicago. If you...

Ralph Nader

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on...

Richard Armour

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all...

Richard Foreman

We live in a world in which everything's interpreted...

Robertson Davies

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know...

Robert Byrne

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate...

Robert Conrad

Barry Sonnenfeld said, 'I have to make this my...

Robert Frost

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take...

Robert Kennedy

Whenever men take the law into their own hands,...

Robert Orben

Do you ever get the feeling that the only...

Robin Wright Penn

I have a very good maternity...

Roger Ebert

Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual...

Roger N. Baldwin

So long as we have enough people in this...

Ronald Reagan

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening...

Ronnie Montrose

Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt...

Ross Perot

The activist is not the man who says the...

Russell Baker

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason...

R. Buckminster Fuller

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not...

R. Buckminster Fuller

The end move in politics is always to pick...

Salvador Dali

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world...

Salvador Dali

The only difference between me and a madman is...

Sandra Day O'Connor

It is a measure of the framers' fear that...

Sandra Day O'Connor

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to...

Sandra Day O'Connor

My hope is that 10 years from now, after...

Sandra Day O'Connor

We hold that the reckless disregard for human life...

Sarah McLachlan

I'm going to be around for a while. I'm...

Sargent Shriver

It is well to be prepared for life as...

Saul Bellow

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The...

Sitting Bull

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the...

Spiro T. Agnew

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose...

Sydney J. Harris

Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people...

Ted Turner

We have to do more than keep media giants...

Thomas B. Macaulay

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it...

Thomas Hobbes

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal...

Thomas Jefferson

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on...

Thomas P. O'Neill

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You...

Thurgood Marshall

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of...

William E. Gladstone

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence....

William Gilbert

And I always voted at my party's call,And I...

William O. Douglas

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased...

Will Rogers

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until...

Will Rogers

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government...

Will Rogers

There ought to be one day - just one...

Winston Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all...

W. C. Fields

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote...

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of...