Politics Quotes - Page 19

I'd put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills.

Im the lamest lame duck there could be.

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

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.