Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

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 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 know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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

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

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

If the Federal Reserve pursues a policy which Congress or the President believes not to be in the public interest, there is nothing Congress can do to reverse the policy. Nor is there anything the people can do. Such bastions of unaccountable power are undemocratic. The Federal Reserve System must be reformed, so that it is answerable to the elected representatives of the people.

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.

If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.

If the old dog hadn't got distracted by the fire plug, he would have caught the rabbit.

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office.

If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.