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Adlai E. Stevenson The idea that you can merchandise candidates for...
Adm James D. Watkins This is an era of violent peace....
Adolf Hitler What luck for rulers, that men do not think....
Albert Einstein All of us who are concerned for peace and triump...
Albert Einstein The problems that exist in the world today canno...
Albert Pike A war for a great principle ennobles a nation....
Alexander Hamilton Those who stand for nothing fall for anything....
Alexis de Tocqueville There are many men of principle in both parties ...
Ambrose Bierce Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of ...
Ambrose Bierce Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as ...
Andy Warhol I met someone on the street who said wasn't it g...
Aristotle Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men ...
Arnold H. Glasow An idea not coupled with action will never get a...
Arthur C. Clarke I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected Pre...
Barry M. Goldwater I would remind you that extremism in the defense...
Bernard M. Baruch Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be th...
Bill Vaughan The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last coo...
Caskie Stinnett A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to...
Charles De Gaulle In order to become the master, the politician po...
Charles De Gaulle In politics it is necessary either to betray one...
Charles Krauthammer Every two years the American politics industry f...
Charles McC Mathias, Jr. I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing ...
Charles McC Mathias, Jr. Most of us are honest all the time, and all of u...
Clare Boothe Luce The politicians were talking themselves red, whi...
Clare Boothe Luce They say women talk too much. If you have worked...
Dan Quayle El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprisin...
Dan Quayle I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify...
Dan Quayle I deserve respect for the things I did not do....
Dan Quayle I do have a political agenda. It's to have as fe...
Dan Quayle I happen to be a Republican president - ah, the ...
Dan Quayle I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to...
Dan Quayle I have made good judgements in the past. I have ...
Dan Quayle I just don't believe in the basic concept that s...
Dan Quayle I love California, I practically grew up in Phoe...
Dan Quayle I spend a great deal of time with the President....
Dan Quayle I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman....
Dan Quayle I was known as the chief grave robber of my stat...
Dan Quayle I was recently on a tour of Latin America,and th...
Dan Quayle I'm going to be a vice president very much like ...
Dan Quayle I've never professed to be anything but an avera...
Dan Quayle Illegitimacy is something we should talk about i...
Dan Quayle In George Bush you get experience, and with me y...
Dan Quayle It's rural America. It's where I came from. We a...
Dan Quayle Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is,...
Dan Quayle Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now ...
Dan Quayle Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least...
Dan Quayle My friends, no matter how rough the road may be,...
Dan Quayle Republicans understand the importance of bondage...
Dan Quayle Sometimes cameras and television are good to peo...
Dan Quayle The American people would not want to know of an...
Dan Quayle The Holocaust was an obscene period in our natio...
Dan Quayle The other day the President said, I know you've ...
Dan Quayle The President is going to benefit from me report...
Dan Quayle This election is about who's going to be the nex...
Dan Quayle This President is going to lead us out of this r...
Dan Quayle We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to...
Dan Quayle We have to do more than just elect a new Preside...
Dan Quayle We will invest in our people, quality education,...
Dan Quayle Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fel...
Dan Quayle What you guys want, I'm for....
Dan Quayle When I have been asked during these last weeks w...
Dan Quayle When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I c...
Dan Quayle When you make as many speeches and you talk as m...
Dan Quayle You have a part-time job and that's better than ...
Daniel J. Boorstin As you make your bed, so you must lie in it....
Daniel J. Boorstin Freedom means the opportunity to be what we neve...
Daniel J. Boorstin Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to ...
Daniel Webster Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on ea...
Dante Alighieri The darkest places in hell are reserved for thos...
Dante Alighieri The secret of getting things done is to act!...
Deng Xiaoping The United States brags about its political syst...
Dennis Miller A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock,...
Dick Gregory In most places in the country, voting is looked ...
Doug Larson Instead of giving a politician the keys to the c...
Dwight D. Eisenhower Oh, that lovely title, ex-president....
E. B. White Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more t...
Edmund Burke When bad men combine, the good must associate; e...
Edward Koch I know many writers who first dictate passages, ...
Edward Koch If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in...
Edward Koch The art of creation is older than the art of kil...
Edward M. Kennedy Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I jus...
Emma Goldman If voting changed anything, they'd make it illeg...
Emma Goldman No real social change has ever been brought abou...
Erich Fromm The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the...
Everett McKinley Dirksen A billion here and a billion there, and soon you...
Fidel Castro The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploite...
Frank Lloyd Wright A free America... means just this: individual fr...
Frank McKinney Hubbard We would all like to vote for the best man but h...
Gary Hart I think there is one higher office than presiden...
Gary Hart There is always some fig leaf being used....
George C. Wallace After much prayerful consideration, I feel that ...
George C. Wallace I'm the lamest lame duck there could be....
George C. Wallace Why does the Air Force need expensive new bomber...
George F. Will Conservatives define themselves in terms of what...
George F. Will The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he trai...
George F. Will Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will...
George Jean Nathan Bad officials are elected by good citizens who d...
Geraldine A. Ferraro I should have had a circuitous answer that was a...
Gerhard Schroeder I can't let important policy decisions hinge on ...
Gertrude Stein There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any ...
Gilbert K. Chesterton Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure...
Gore Vidal Any American who is prepared to run for presiden...
Gore Vidal Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerou...
Gore Vidal Half of the American people have never read a ne...
Grover Cleveland Sensible and responsible women do not want to vo...
H. L. Mencken In this world of sin and sorrow there is always ...
H. L. Mencken The whole aim of practical politics is to keep t...
H. L. Mencken Under democracy, one party always devotes its ch...
H. Ross Perot The activist is not the man who says the river i...
Harold MacMillan You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House o...
Harry S. Truman A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in t...
Harry S. Truman All the president is, is a glorified public rela...
Henry B. Adams He too serves a certain purpose who only stands ...
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. It has been well said that a hungry man is more ...
Herbert Hoover The thing I enjoyed most were visits from childr...
Hilaire Belloc The accursed power which stands on Privilege (An...
Imelda Marcos When they see me holding fish, they can see that...
J. Edgar Hoover Justice is incidental to law and order....
J. Edgar Hoover We are a fact-gathering organization only. We do...
Jacques Chirac Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a ...
James Harvey Robinson Political campaigns are designedly made into emo...
James Q. Wilson There are no more liberals They've all been mugg...
James William Fulbright In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith....
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat...
Jesse Jackson My constituency is the desperate, the damned, th...
Jimmy Carter Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are af...
John Cleese If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a ...
John F. Kennedy My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government ...
John F. Seiberling The American people want to preserve their Ameri...
John Foster Dulles The world will never have lasting peace so long ...
John G. Diefenbaker I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Ca...
John G. Diefenbaker The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics....
John Kenneth Galbraith Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is...
John Kenneth Galbraith The modern conservative is engaged in one of man...
John Morley You have not converted a man because you have si...
John Quincy Adams Always vote for principle, though you may vote a...
John Stuart Mill Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but mo...
John Stuart Mill The person who has nothing for which he is willi...
John W. Gardner For every talent that poverty has stimulated it ...
John W. Gardner When one may pay out over two million dollars to...
Joseph Stalin It is enough that the people know there was an e...
Kahlil Gibran Life without liberty is like a body without spir...
Kahlil Gibran What do the nationalists say about killers punis...
Kirk O'Donnell Political theory provides a common language with...
Lady Bird Johnson Every politician should have been born an orphan...
Larry Hardiman Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking p...
Leo Rosten A conservative is one who admires radicals centu...
Lord Acton Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrup...
Louis D. Brandeis If we desire respect for the law, we must first ...
Mao Tse-Tung Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is ...
Margaret Thatcher I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my ...
Margaret Thatcher In politics, if you want anything said, ask a ma...
Margaret Truman He loved politicians - even Republicans....
Marion Barry Outside of the killings, Washington has one of t...
Marion Barry What right does Congress have to go around makin...
Mark Twain Principles have no real force except when one is...
Mark Twain Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were ...
Maureen Murphy The reason there are so few female politicians i...
Meg Greenfield If a politician murders his mother, the first re...
Neal Barnard, M.D. The beef industry has contributed to more Americ...
Nelson Mandela If the United States of America or Britain is ha...
Newt Gingrich Perseverance is the hard work you do after you g...
Nikita S. Khrushchev Politicians are the same all over. They promise ...
Oliver Stone I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It'...
P. J. O'Rourke The Democrats are the party that says government...
P. J. O'Rourke When buying and selling are controlled by legisl...
Paddy Chayevsky Television is democracy at its ugliest....
Plato One of the penalties for refusing to participate...
Plato Those who are too smart to engage in politics ar...
Pope John Paul II Radical changes in world politics leave America ...
R. Buckminster Fuller Pollution is nothing but the resources we are no...
R. Buckminster Fuller The end move in politics is always to pick up a ...
R. Buckminster Fuller Truth is a tendency....
Ralph Nader Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on yo...
Ralph Waldo Emerson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little...
Richard Armour Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too ...
Robert Byrne Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candi...
Robert F. Kennedy Whenever men take the law into their own hands, ...
Robert Orben Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason...
Robertson Davies Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they ...
Roger Ebert Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casu...
Ronald Reagan Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frighten...
Russell Baker Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For ...
Sandra Day O'Connor It is a measure of the framers' fear that a pass...
Sandra Day O'Connor It is difficult to discern a serious threat to r...
Sandra Day O'Connor My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've be...
Sandra Day O'Connor We hold that the reckless disregard for human li...
Saul Bellow Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos....
Spiro T. Agnew Confronted with the choice, the American people ...
Stewart L. Udall We have, I fear, confused power with greatness....
Theodore H. White The flood of money that gushes into politics tod...
Thomas B. Macaulay Many politicians are in the habit of laying it d...
Thomas Hobbes Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virt...
Thomas Jefferson I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painfu...
Thomas Jefferson Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices...
Thomas P. O'Neill You better take advantage of the good cigars. Yo...
Thurgood Marshall Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the ...
Tom Bradley People cut themselves off from their ties of the...
W. C. Fields Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote ag...
W. S. Gilbert I always voted at my party's call, and I never t...
Will Rogers Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" unt...
Will Rogers I don't make jokes. I just watch the government ...
Will Rogers I'm not a member of any organized political part...
Will Rogers There ought to be one day - just one - when ther...
William E. Simon Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good p...
William Ewart Gladstone Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by pr...
William O. Douglas Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased...
William Sherman If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will...
Winston Churchill If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy...
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of...

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