Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.

I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

I can very well say without hesitation that all those who have political power, even if they use it well have acquired it by demonic mediation and even if they are not conscious of it, they are worshippers of diabolos.

I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself.

I can understand that if you have sold arms to the ayatollah why you might not be quite as sensitive to the need to get assault weapons off our streets.

I can't wait until dissent is patriotic again.

I care about politics, but I have a tough time making comedy out of it. I was so happy to have a chance to be on The Daily Show, and I think Jon Stewart's so funny... but mostly in my own comedy, I care about less relevant things.

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

I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

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

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

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

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

I don't have too much time for fiction.

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

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 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 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 put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills.

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.

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

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

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