Politics Quotes - Page 69

I'm old enuf to remember when Dems considered a UN resolution and an actual coalition nothing more than Bushy McHitler going it alone.

It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.

I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.

We spend more money on antacids than we do on politics.

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.

They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn't know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

God of ages, Lord of Time, mine is the right to be wrong.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.