Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
--H. L. Mencken
You think if you get elected, Gore will try to take credit for it?
--Jay Leno interviewing George Bush
Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly
around women. And I hope I never get into that.
--William J. Clinton - Bill Clinton
Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything.
--Josef Stalin
When asked to name the chief qualification a politician
should have. "It's the ability to foretell what will happen tomorrow,
next month, and next year --- and to explain afterward why it didn't happen."
--Sir Winston Churchill
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have
liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy,
geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation,
commerce and agriculture in order to give their children
a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture,
statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
--John Adams (1735-1826)
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in.
No is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow.
They know is going to rise tomorrow. W
hen people are fanatically dedicated to political or
religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals,
it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.
--Robert M. Pirsig Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct
to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
--M. Russell Ballard
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but
they don't want them to become politicians in the process
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The simple fact is that when I took up my little sling and
aimed at Communism, I also hit something else. W
hat I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which,
in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly,
always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the
nation for two decades. ...[T]hough I knew it existed, I still had
no adequate idea of its extent, the depth of its penetration or the
fierce vindictiveness of its revolutionary temper, which is a reflex
of it struggle to keep and advance its political power.
--Whittaker Chambers former Communist. From his 1952 book Witness
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession.
I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
--Ronald Reagan
Bush is in a strong position -- for now. Let's hope he knows
that politics won't stay pleasantly boring forever.
--National Review Online
Can government really be active and, at the same time, limited?
History suggests otherwise.
--Lew Rockwell
Squeezing our money out of politicians is more difficult than
squeezing blood from a turnip. To paraphrase an Oscar Hammerstein
love song, once they have found a way to take our money, they never let it go.
--Cal Thomas
[O]ur political kultur is polluted with politics, the politics of the left.
Call it Kultursmog. It pollutes every area of life it touches with politics.
--R. Emmett Tyrrell
Politicians are like diapers. They should both be
changed frequently and for the same reason.
--Anonymous
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
--Dan Quayle
Politics is more difficult than physics
--Albert Einstein
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent,
hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent
that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
--Lily Tomlin
A politician will do anything to keep his job even become a patriot.
--William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) US newspaper publisher,
Recalled on his death 14 Aug 1951
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
--Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) Russian political leader
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia.
It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
--Sir Winston Churchill
The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle;
pleasure without conscience; wealth without work;
knowledge without character; business without morality;
science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
--Mahatma Gandhi
Politics is the art of the possible.
--Otto von Bismarck
Today's public figures can no longer write their
own speeches or books, and there is some evidence
that they can't read them either.
--Gore Vidal
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