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Quotes on Politics
"Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did."
Jimmy Durante (1893-1980) US comedian
"Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home."
Winston Churchill
"All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway."
Harry S Truman
"The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 3rd U.S. president, from a letter, 1787
"Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees."
Boris Marshalov
"Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist."
Richard Nixon (37th)US president
"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it important."
Eugene McCarthy (1916-) US politician, teacher
"The nearest thing to immortality is this world is a government bureau."
General Hugh S. Johnson (A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.)
"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
Mark Twain
"Guidelines for Bureaucrats:
1. When in charge, ponder.
2. When in trouble, delegate.
3. When in doubt, mumble."
- James H. Boren
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."
Adlai Stevenson
"Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office."
David Broder
"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."
Lyndon B. Johnson
PRESIDENCY, n.
The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) US journalist,
"Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned."
Milton Friedman
"There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators."
Will Rogers
"I've got gay supporters. I don't ask their sexual orientation though."
George W. Bush
"My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Our country has come a long way: first we had George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie. Then we had Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the truth. And now we have Al Gore, who can't tell the difference..."
Jay Leno
"Al Gore ... he once was pro-life, now he's pro-choice. He once was against gun control, now he's for it. He claimed he invented the Internet. Hey, Gore just needs to debate himself!"
Jay Leno
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
Plato (427?-347? B.C.)
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman
"A zebra does not change its spots."
Vice President Al Gore
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
George W. Bush
"This is not about momentum. It is about substance. I actually think that the best substance in the end is the best politics. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that that's true."
Vice President Al Gore
"A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness."
George W. Bush. (He meant to say "antidotes.")
"Al Gore visited a bookstore today. He was shocked to find a book about everything he has said in his campaign could be found in the fiction section."
Jay Leno
"To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles."
-Anon. Author
"We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile."
- George W. Bush
"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear."
Alan Coren
"They that give up the essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty or safety "
Ben Franklin
"Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans."
Alf Landon (during a speech in his presidential campaign against FDR)
"I was a less than serious student in college. If I had it to do over again, I would be far more serious. I did play a lot of golf. But I don't think that's any reflection on my ability to lead this nation."
Dan Quayle Vice President and Presidential Candidate
"Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that."
Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
William Gibbs McAdoo American government official(1863-1941).
"The beginning is the most important part of the work"
Plato
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