Quotes by Authors - Page 119

Beauty to me is being comfortable in your own skin.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?
William Thackeray
If nominated I will not accept if elected I will not serve.
William Tecumseh Sherman
My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff.
Theodore Roosevelt
The statesman shears the sheep the politician skins them.
Austin O'Malley
If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none.
Thomas Jefferson
A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation.
James Freeman Clarke
A politican is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
Anonymous
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher
What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics
Anonymous
Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees.
Jay Leno
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
He is so aware of being politically correct he refers to a taco as Hispanic food.
Wendy Morgan
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson
As a politician he does everything to keep out of trouble often by not asking questions. However it does bother him that every time the doorbell rings his maid hides in the dryer.
Jay Leno
A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.
Ivern Ball
Liberals think you can reform an ax murderer. They don't want to kill anything. They want to change the Listerine labels to "Rehabilitate the germs that cause bad breath."
Marc Price
Men in high levels of government seldom surf.
Rita Rudner
It's nice to have four years between elections. It takes people that long to regain their faith.
Anonymous
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F Kennedy
One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
Robert F. Kennedy
Money is the mother's milk of politics.
Jesse Unruh
Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once.
Winston Churchill
I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and courage. This is a call to arms.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad get even.
Everett Dirksen
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.
George Orwell
In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.
John P. Roche
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.
Aneurin Bevan
The lady's not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Jawaharlal Nehru
A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics.
Sam Himmel
This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics.
Nellie McClung
Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.
Ely Culbertson
Politics is the gizzard of society full of gut and gravel.
Henry David Thoreau
Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.
John Morley
Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.
Albert Camus
Politics as a practice whatever its professions has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold Macmillan
Politics is not a good location or a vocation for anyone lazy thin-skinned or lacking a sense of humour.
John Bailey
Ultimately politics in a democracy reflects values much more than it shapes them.
Arnold A. Rogow
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry Adams
It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.
Harold Macmillan
When Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC ) was in 64 BC running for consul of Rome he was reported to be advised by his "campaign manager" that the voters "had rather you lied to them than refused them."
Anonymous
What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.
Bernard Crick
We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.
Dean Rusk
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Mark Twain
Politics is a blood sport.
Aneurin Bevan
If we cannot now end our differences at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F Kennedy
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."
John F Kennedy
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher
The fact that a reactionary can sometimes be right is a little less recognized that the fact that a liberal can be. . . .
Joseph Gies
A Conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ancient institution the old one.
Douglas Jerrold
Never retract never explain never apologize - get the thing done and let them howl.
Nellie McClung
Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves.
Garry Wills
Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters using the voters' own money.
Richard J. Needham
One of the luxuries of a politican's life is that you see yourself as others see you.
Joe Clark
Whin a man gets to be my age he ducks political meetin's an' reads th' papers an' weighs th' ividence an' th' argymints - pro-argymints an' con-argymints an' makes up his mind ca'mly an' votes th' Dimmycratic Ticket.
Finley Peter Dunne
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
If we are strong our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak words will be no help.
John F Kennedy
Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his friends for his political life.
Jeremy Thorpe