Politics Quotes - Page 40

The personal is political.

I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

An informed patriotism is what we want.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.

I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.

Liberty is the breath of progress.

Men in high levels of government seldom surf.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.