Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should
on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern.
Every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton
Diplomacy is about surviving until the next century. Politics
is about surviving until Friday afternoon.
Sir Humphrey Appleby
Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject
of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains
from fiction.
W.H. Auden
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in
the country.
Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC
Radicalism, n.: The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of
to-day.
Ambrose Bierce
Otto Von Bismark |
The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better
they'll sleep at night.
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. |
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations
officers.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
David Broder
Communism is like one big phone company.
Lenny Bruce
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
Charles Bukowski
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs
and cutting hair.
George Burns
George W. Bush |
What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they
basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas,
I think, vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what
everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.
To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say
well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president
of the United States.
If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and
principles, come and join this campaign. |
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Robert Byrne
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there
is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the
only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky
Winston Churchill |
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the
average voter. |
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
Frank Dane
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite
of what they say.
Abba Eban
Traditionally most of Australia's imports come from overseas.
Keppel Enderbery - former Australian cabinet minister
Hell, I never vote for anybody. I always vote against.
W.C. Fields
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
John Kenneth Galbraith |
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between
the disastrous and the unpalatable. |
Charles De Gaulle |
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we
were often angry at each other.
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. |
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If
[voters] care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
Newt Gingrich
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually
come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State
can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences
of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of
its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie,
and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
Joseph Goebbels
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Cullen Hightower
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the National Debt.
Herbert Hoover
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are
an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want
them to become politicians in the process
J.F. Kennedy
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side - I've noticed those with
the most opinions often have the fewest facts.
Bethania McKenstry
I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the
present, or nothing but the past.
John Maynard Keynes
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there
is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought
which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name.
Henry Kissinger
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully
rationed.
Lenin
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Jay Leno
Groucho Marx |
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. |
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
Eugene McCarthy
H.L. Mencken |
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual
ignorance.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it
is largely a waste of time.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
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You're planning to make a ship sail against wind and tide by lighting a fire
below deck?? I don't have time to listen to that kind of nonsense!"
Napoleon, about Robert Fultons plans to make a Steamboat.
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
Robert Orben
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary
act
George Orwell
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments
of its opposers.
William Penn
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Edgar Allan Poe
Ronald Reagan |
Politics is supposed be the second oldest profession.
I have come
to realise that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: "I'm from
the government and I'm here to help."
I have orders to be awakened at any time in the case of a national
emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.'
And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin.
And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
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It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women
to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy
capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson, speaking of the Equal Rights Amendment Mar. 22, 1930
Will Rogers |
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session
as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working
for you.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. |
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a
political career.
George Bernard Shaw
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
Art Spander
Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide
everything.
Josef Stalin
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard
The President has kept all the promises he intended to keep.
Clinton aide George Stephanopolous
Margaret Thatcher |
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you
are, you aren't.
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. |
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Fred Thompson
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Gideon J. Tucker
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But
I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist
until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public
treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising
the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy
always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These
nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;from courage to liberty; from liberty
to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency;
from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency;from dependency back
again to bondage.
Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian
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
Unknown |
The pursuit of freedom is the love of others; the quest for power
is the love of ourselves.
Politicians & diapers both need to be changed, and for the same
reason
If we quit voting, would they all go away?
Isn't it funny how the word 'politics' is made up of the words 'poli'
meaning 'many' in Latin, and 'tics' as in 'bloodsucking creatures’?
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
The latest new dance craze is called, "The Politician." It's
two steps forward, one step backward, and then a sidestep.
If the government is the answer, it must have been a stupid question.
If an anarchist group attained political power, would they by principle
have to dissolve their own government?
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
One day, the President was out jogging without his guards.All of a sudden a man with a ski mask jumped out from behind some bushes with a gun.
The masked man said "Give me all your money!"
Unwilling to do so, the President said, "You can't do this, I'm the President!"
The man then replied,..."Oh, never mind then. Give me MY money!" |
Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times.
George Van Valkenburg
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
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it.
This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
Kurt Vonnegut
I've read about foreign policy and studied, I now know the number of continents.
George Wallace 1968 presidential campaign
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them.
There
were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly
trying to keep it for themselves.
John Wayne
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
Alfred E. Wiggam
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power,
not the increase of it
Woodrow Wilson
You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
Boris Yeltsin
