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Adlai E. Stevenson The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high offi... Adolf Hitler What luck for rulers, that men do not think.... A. J. Liebling Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own o... 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 in America... Ambrose Bierce Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing e... Ambrose Bierce Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest ... Andy Warhol I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that ... George Jean Nathan Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote... Harold MacMillan You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons ... Harry S. Truman All the president is, is a glorified public relations man ... Harry S. Truman A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republi... Mark Twain Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member o... Aristotle Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of propert... Arnold H. Glasow An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger ... Arthur C. Clarke I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but... Barry Goldwater I would remind you that extremism in the defense of libert... Bernard Baruch Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least di... Bill Vaughan The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the... Caskie Stinnett A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in s... Charles de Gaulle In order to become the master, the politician poses as the... Charles de Gaulle In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country... Charles Krauthammer Every two years the American politics industry fills the a... Charles McC Mathias, Jr. I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expand... Charles McC Mathias, Jr. Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are hone... Clare Boothe Luce They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congre... Clare Boothe Luce The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blu... Clarence Darrow When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become Pres... Daniel J. Boorstin Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all ... 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 never thought ... Daniel Webster Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is... Dan Quayle What you guys want, I'm for.... Dan Quayle It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.... Dan Quayle We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forwar... Dan Quayle I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good ... Dan Quayle The future will be better tomorrow.... Dan Quayle The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's histor... Dan Quayle Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a... Dan Quayle Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astron... Dan Quayle I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more free... Dan Quayle I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.... Dan Quayle When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused ... Dan Quayle Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of... Dan Quayle Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows... Dan Quayle We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not ... Dan Quayle We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enligh... Dan Quayle I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.... Dan Quayle El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that the... Dan Quayle It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refe... Dan Quayle I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with work... Dan Quayle Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, ... Dan Quayle I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.... Dan Quayle This election is about who's going to be the next Presiden... Dan Quayle I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a ve... Dan Quayle I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bus... Dan Quayle The President is going to benefit from me reporting direct... Dan Quayle When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I d... Dan Quayle I happen to be a Republican president - ah, the vice presi... Dan Quayle I've never professed to be anything but an average student... Dan Quayle The other day the President said, I know you've had some r... Dan Quayle In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - T... Dan Quayle When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him ... Dan Quayle My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can an... Dan Quayle Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and so... Dan Quayle I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone sho... Dan Quayle I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulati... Dan Quayle You have a part-time job and that's better than no job at ... Dan Quayle I deserve respect for the things I did not do.... Dan Quayle This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.... Dan Quayle We have to do more than just elect a new President if we t... Dan Quayle The American people would not want to know of any misquote... Dan Quayle We will invest in our people, quality education, job oppor... Dan Quayle I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a... Dante Alighieri The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who main... Dante Alighieri The secret of getting things done is to act!... Deng Xiaoping The United States brags about its political system, but th... Dennis Miller A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is r... Dick Gregory In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a ... Doug Larson Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it mi... Dwight D. Eisenhower Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.... E. B. White Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half o... Edmund Burke When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they w... Edward Kennedy Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind tha... Edward Koch If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to ... Edward Koch If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.... Edward Koch I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polis... Edward Koch The art of creation is older than the art of killing.... Emma Goldman If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.... Emma Goldman No real social change has ever been brought about without ... Erich Fromm The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccess... Esther B. Fein If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the c... Everett Dirksen A billion here and a billion there, and soon you're talkin... Fidel Castro The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against ... Fidel Castro The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusi... Frank A. Clark We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commis... Franklin D. Roosevelt A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, ... Frank Lloyd Wright A free America... means just this: individual freedom for ... Gary Hart There is always some fig leaf being used.... Gary Hart I think there is one higher office than president and I wo... George C. Wallace After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say... George C. Wallace Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have th... George C. Wallace I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.... George MacDonald It is not in the nature of politics that the best men shou... George Will Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppo... George Will Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide is... George Will The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from ... Gerhard Schroeder I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact t... Gertrude Stein There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. Th... Gilbert K. Chesterton Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all cl... Gore Vidal Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. H... Gore Vidal Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous election... Gore Vidal Any American who is prepared to run for president should a... Grover Cleveland Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The re... Henry A. Kissinger Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten perce... Henry B. Adams He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers... Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested... Herbert Hoover The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They d... H. L. Mencken The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populac... H. L. Mencken In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something ... Hyman Rickover If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucr... Imelda Marcos When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comf... Isaac Asimov Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what... Jacques Chirac Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that k... James D. Watkins This is an era of violent peace.... James Harvey Robinson Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional org... James Q. Wilson There are no more liberals They've all been mugged.... 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 in a Repu... J. Edgar Hoover Justice is incidental to law and order.... J. Edgar Hoover We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear ... Jesse Jackson My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinher... Jimmy Carter Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of th... John Cleese If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living ask... John F. Kennedy My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promi... John Foster Dulles The world will never have lasting peace so long as men res... John G. Diefenbaker I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.... John G. Diefenbaker The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one ca... John Kenneth Galbraith The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest ... John Kenneth Galbraith Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more... John Morley You have not converted a man because you have silenced him... John Quincy Adams Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and ... John Stuart Mill Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid ... John Stuart Mill The person who has nothing for which he is willing to figh... John W. Gardner When one may pay out over two million dollars to president... John W. Gardner For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blight... Joseph Stalin It is enough that the people know there was an election. T... Kahlil Gibran What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murde... Kahlil Gibran Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.... Kin Hubbard We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never... Kirk O'Donnell Political theory provides a common language with which peo... Lady Bird Johnson Every politician should have been born an orphan and remai... Leonard Bernstein A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward... Leo Rosten A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after... Lord Acton Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolut... Louis D. Brandeis The most important political office is that of the private... Louis D. Brandeis If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the l... Mao Tse-Tung Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics w... Margaret Thatcher In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you ... Margaret Thatcher I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in... Margaret Truman He loved politicians - even Republicans.... Marion Barry Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest ... Mark Twain Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.... Martin L. Gross We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosop... Maureen Murphy The reason there are so few female politicians is that it ... Meg Greenfield If a politician murders his mother, the first response of ... Milton Friedman Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.... Mohandas Gandhi It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our he... Napoleon Bonaparte He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.... Neal Barnard The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths ... Nelson Mandela If the United States of America or Britain is having elect... Newt Gingrich Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired o... Nikita Khrushchev Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a... Oliver Stone I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody a... Oscar Levant The only difference between the Democrats and the Republic... Paddy Chayefsky Television is democracy at its ugliest.... Paul Valery Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part ... P. J. O'Rourke When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the... P. J. O'Rourke The Democrats are the party that says government will make... Plato One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politi... Plato Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished... Pope John Paul II Radical changes in world politics leave America with a hei... Ralph Nader Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.... R. Buckminster Fuller Truth is a tendency.... R. Buckminster Fuller Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesti... R. Buckminster Fuller The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.... Richard Armour Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has ... Robert Byrne Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you d... Robert Kennedy Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser ... Robert Orben Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have e... Robertson Davies Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know... Roger Baldwin So long as we have enough people in this country willing t... Roger Ebert Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indiffe... Ronald Reagan Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an ... Ross Perot The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. T... Russell Baker Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reaso... Sandra Day O'Connor My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across ... Sandra Day O'Connor It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious l... Sandra Day O'Connor It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majori... Sandra Day O'Connor We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implici... Saul Bellow Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presi... Spiro T. Agnew Confronted with the choice, the American people would choo... Stewart L. Udall We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.... Theodore White The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a po... Thomas B. Macaulay Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a s... Thurgood Marshall Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of... Tom Bradley People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life ... Thomas Hobbes Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.... Thomas Jefferson Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rotten... Thomas Jefferson I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and than... Thomas Paine 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose ... Thomas P. O'Neill You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't ge... T. S. Eliot An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the... W. C. Fields Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.... William E. Gladstone Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Co... William E. Simon Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who ... William Gilbert I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of ... William O. Douglas Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle an... William Tecumseh Sherman If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve... Will Rogers I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report... Will Rogers Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can... Will Rogers I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a D... Will Rogers There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open ... Winston Churchill If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respe... Woodrow Wilson A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly s... Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the Unite...

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