Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

I've always wanted to do more significant stuff. I think of myself as well-informed, but the hardest thing to do is talk about politics and current events and be funny and not just preachy.

I've been a lifetime Democrat, and I'm re-registering this year as an independent. It's strictly [because] my party, that I've been affiliated with all these years, doesn't stand for anything that I stand for anymore. They've lost any sensibility that they had, and they've allowed all the kooks in, so I'm going independent.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon.

I've got all of my enemies here in the Cabinet where I can keep an eye on them.

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

I've said time and again, I'm a pro-life candidate, I'll be a pro-life president.

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.

I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.

I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

I want to make sure every House Republican is protected from some kind of dishonest, Democratic edge. So, let me say on the record: any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth

I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked way up my chimney hole, I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl.

I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.

I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

I went to the UN and even the guidebook was spineless.

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

I went to my Congressman and he said quote quote, I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote.

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.

I wonder if it's possible to be a Republican and a Christian at the same time.

I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in the country.

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.

Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.

July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.

Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it is regarded as an amateurish and cranky fad.

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Kelso and Adler's book could start a revolution.

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

[Khrushchev] should get a one-ton medal.

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.