Politics Quotes - Page 18

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Pushers don't pay taxes.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

I think the country has had enough Bushes.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

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

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.