Political Quotes - Page 109

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.

Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

The woman who knew that I had dyslexia - I never interviewed her.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.

Our nation must come together to unite.

This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.

Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.

I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative literature. . . . I'm not sure one can be a creative writer and a politician -- not a "good" politician.

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.

There is no hell, there's only France