Politics Quotes - Page 74

We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.

I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.

...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.

I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.

She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.

With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.

The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change.

I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed.

There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.

Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

One is only poor, only if they choose to be.

I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has, which is to say zero.

...nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy

[T]he harm [Clinton AG] Reno did to American national security in the fight against terror was incalculable.

It is from the center that leaders must lead.

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.

If you're going to be a sexual predator, be a Democrat.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.