Politics Quotes - Page 29

I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.

Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?

Great obstacles make great leaders.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

In politics, guts is all.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

They love us everywhere we go. So when in doubt, send the Marines.

They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will.

Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.