Politics Quotes
Kurt Vonnegut
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
4068 Piers Morgan
There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.
1046 Donald Trump
An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud.
2024 Donald Trump
Robert Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart. She cheated on him like a dog & will do it again – just watch. He can do much better!
1301 Donald Trump
Ariana Huffington is unattractive, both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man – he made a good decision.
2991 Donald Trump
Our great African-American President hasn’t exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore.
4478 Donald Trump
One of they key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace. Good people don’t go into government.
2983 Donald Trump
My Twitter has become so powerful that I can actually make my enemies tell the truth.
4683 Donald Trump
Look at those hands, are they small hands? And, [Republican rival Marco Rubio] referred to my hands: ‘If they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee.
3616 Donald Trump
I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen, down on 7-Eleven, down at the World Trade Center, right after it came down.
1686 Donald Trump
The only card [Hillary Clinton] has is the woman’s card. She’s got nothing else to offer and frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d get 5 percent of the vote. The only thing she’s got going is the woman’s card, and the beautiful thing is, women don’t like her.
3966 Donald Trump
Number one, I have great respect for women. I was the one that really broke the glass ceiling on behalf of women, more than anybody in the construction industry.
2353 Donald Trump
I’m just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump, right?
1416 Hillary Rodham Clinton
The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.
1859 Hillary Rodham Clinton
I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.
4698 Hillary Rodham Clinton
It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.
2471 Hillary Rodham Clinton
The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
3902 Hillary Rodham Clinton
There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives. There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.
4515 Hillary Rodham Clinton
You want me to tell you what my husband thinks? My husband is not secretary of state; I am. If you want my opinion, I will tell you my opinion. I am not going to be channeling my husband.
3196 Mark Twain
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
4936 Kurt Vonnegut
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
4012 George Burns
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
1468 Jon Stewart
You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.
4226 Ronald Reagan
I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
1522 Stephen Colbert
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
2822 Robert E. Howard
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
1945 Harry S. Truman
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
1516 Margaret Thatcher
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
3301 Robert Orben
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
3072 Douglas Adams
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
4541 Rachel Maddow
The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.
2446 Ali Shariati
I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .
2121 Tiffany Madison
We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away.
2581 Toba Beta
There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties.
2326 E.A. Bucchianeri
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
4325 Mahatma Gandhi
Seven Deadly Sins
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.
2454 Thomas Jefferson
not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.
1145 Toni Morrison
I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is―a politician.
4988 Ghassan Kanafani
My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.
4844 Amit Kalantri
Bureaucrats and Politicians are different people, work of Bureaucrats makes us hate Politicians.
1314 Anthony De Mello
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.
3634 Tarun J. Tejpal
It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.
1135 Benjamin Wiker
Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.
4299 Frank Luntz
We have put our words on steroids and amped the language up so high that unless we communicate in overdrive and hyperbole, we believe-perhaps correctly-that nobody will hear us. In the process, we've sacrificed nuance and judgement and distinction, and thereby cheapened the conversation.
1445 Wayne Chirisa
Leadership is preceeded by a vision for all; a true leader will lead the nation into an unforseen desired dimensional transformation that even the dead will clap their hands.
3247 Swami Dhyan Giten
There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion - but it seems to be very difficult for people to understand this simple relationship.
3426 Anthony Liccione
Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.
1023 Ray Stone
If the price I have to pay to see Jewish children playing without an armed escort are freeways across the desert and a take-a-way on every street corner throughout the Middle East, then I’m all for it.
2508 Dark Jar Tin Zoo
I make love like a snake disguised as an elephant and a donkey. But I mustn’t talk about sexual congress and Congress simultaneously.
3635 Peter Adejimi
History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.
1553 Ken Follett
He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver.
2924 Charles S. Weinblatt
Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.
3005 Graham Greene
I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
4548 Bill Hicks
I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, "My God! I love everything." Yeah, now if that isn't a hazard to our country … how are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we're all one?
3638 Louis-Ferdinand Céline
I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.
4202 Douglas Adams
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
4117 Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
3393 Mark Twain
It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
4765 H.L. Mencken
In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.
1126 Garrison Keillor
The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.
1102 Margaret Thatcher
When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine
3006 Mark Twain
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
2889 Ronald Reagan
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
2986 Ambrose Bierce
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
3804 Ann Coulter
Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are.
4605 Ann Coulter
I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ.
4987 Terry Pratchett
Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.
2832 Bill Hicks
People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.
3659 Stephen Colbert
Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash.
(Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)
4665 Abraham Lincoln
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
3539 Peter Stone
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
1015 Winston S. Churchill
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
3444 Abraham Lincoln
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
2252 Ronald Reagan
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
1001 John F. Kennedy
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
4904 Ronald Reagan
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
2547 Anaïs Nin
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.
4682 Abraham Lincoln
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
1801 Thomas Paine
Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
3925 Nicolas G. Janovsky
Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about our own selves.
4577 Paul Krugman
Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.
3391 Bruce Sterling
You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.
1137 E.A. Bucchianeri
It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.
1839 Mark Haskell Smith
The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.
2392 G.K. Chesterton
The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact; it is actually our truisms that are untrue.
1309 R. Lewis
Truth is that we all need facts we cannot continue to eat only the food that is given to us. Sometimes we have to feed ourselves otherwise we set our self up for dependency on the wrong nutrition without realizing that we were being poisoned the whole time.
3173 Quentin R. Bufogle
One thing I love about politicians; they won't allow the truth to be obscured by a bunch of facts.
3115 Jeff Greenfield
Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.
2706 Rudyard Kipling
A DEAD STATESMAN
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18
1011 Ralph Waldo Emerson
He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets - most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.
3811 Abhishek Shukla
To be successful in life , Plan, Implement, Revise, Update, and Build on Change.
2154 Abhishek Shukla
Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.
1578 Malcolm X
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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