Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something teenage boys might find of interest.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

I'd have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I'd ban the ones made in China.

I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

I do not like to call myself a Liberal, because there is so much that is wrong with liberalism. I also do not like to call my a Conservative for exactly the same reason. The fact that the theater of conservativism today seems to be such a haven for such an abundance of small minded, non-thinking, irrationalists is however making it very difficult for me to not adopt a harder stance.

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

I don't give a damn about the civilians.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.

I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.

I don't have too much time for fiction.

I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.

I don't like politics especially in chess. All I want is promote chess 24/7.

I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.

I'd put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills.

I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.

If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam.

If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also eventually unstable, dangerously ripe for religious and political extremism.

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

If a person, in a position of authority, wants someone to believe a lie, usually all they have to do is tell it to them. If they want someone to believe a ridiculous lie, all they have to do is tell it to them enough.

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

If a teacher misses a target, they change the teacher, If a minister misses a target, they change the target

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.