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Politics Quotes - Page 57

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Song: Slow Train, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

To feed ten mouths, she had to call on Mr. Welfare.

Song: Calling Mr. Welfare, Album: It's a Big Daddy Thing

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.243, Oxford University Press

Howard Dean knows about as much about the South as a hog knows about Sunday.

"Meet The Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. November 2, 2003.

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.583, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

The Sinews of Peace, delivered 5 March 1946 Westminster College, Fulton Missouri

My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.

William Shakespeare (1842). “The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare: According to the Improved Text of Edmund Malone, Including the Latest Revisions, with a Life, Glossarial Notes, an Index, and One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations”, p.252

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?

'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [257]

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.54

For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how.

William Shakespeare, Libby Appel, Michael Flachmann (1986). “Shakespeare's Women: A Playscript for Performance and Analysis”, p.65, SIU Press