Politics Quotes - Page 5

The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them.

Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.