Quotes by Politicians

In 1965, I marched for equality.
Alphonso Jackson
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. And had I not been born in Bad Munstereifel. If we had lived in the city -- well, I"m not saying the event would have gone unnoticed, but the fuss would probably only have lasted a week before public interest moved elsewhere. Besides, in a city you are anonymous; the chances of being picked out as Kristel Kolvenbach's granddaughter would be virtually zero. But in a small town -- well, small towns everywhere are rife with gossip, but in Germany they raise it to an art form.
Helen Grant
What was really unfair about the whole thing was that Oma Kristel hadn't so much exploded as spontaneously combusted. But Gossip is Baron Münchhausen's little sister, and never lets the truth get in the way of a good story.
Helen Grant
At school, the news that Pia Kolvenbach was moving to England and that her parents were divorcing had circulated with lightening speed. Suddenly I was no longer ostracized for being the Potentially Exploding Girl, but the new attention was worse. I could tell that the girls who sidled up to me and asked with faux-sympathetic smiles whether it was true were doing it on the basis of discussions they had heard between their own parents, to who they would report back like scouts. Soon there would be nothing left of me at all, nothing real: I would be a walking piece of gossip, alternatively tragic and appalling and, worse of all, a poor thing.
Helen Grant
Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A regime that can suspend or abrogate the constitution and run the country on its whims and caprice should be ashamed of bringing on its lips the word "law". It is like prescribing a punishment for adultery after raping the country. It is like saying that Holy Quran is suspended nobody can escape from the Hadees.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent stands behind the hierarchy of laws. In one situation, the population is regimented into acquiescence. In the other, the population voluntarily establishes a contract with Parliament. For this reason, one is called a regime and the other, a government. Martial law rests on the sanction of force and not on the sanction of law.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
The people have realized that Martial Law is not law. A regime not established by law is devoid of the attribute to dispense law. A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
I was born in the house my father built.
Richard M. Nixon
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism
Alexander Hamilton
Sometimes, you can hold a grudge for so long you forget why you were holding onto it. And before you know it, half a lifetime has gone by and all you’ve got is a empty fist and a lot of regret.
Benjamin Wood
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Those were comfortable, carefree years. The word I’d use now is idyllic. On Friday nights, we cheered on the Bulldogs of Midland High. On Sunday mornings, we went to church. Nobody locked their doors. Years later, when I would speak about the American Dream, it was Midland I had in mind.
George W. Bush
But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush.
George W. Bush
Well, then what the federal government should have done was accept the assistance of foreign countries, of entrepreneurial Americans who have had solutions that they wanted presented. They can't even get a phone call returned, Bill. The Dutch—they are known, and the Norwegians—they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills. They offered to help and yet, no, they too, with the proverbial, can't even get a phone call back.
Sarah Palin
I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.
Winston S. Churchill
Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.
Sarah Palin
My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.
Joe Biden
Property has its duties as well as its rights.
Thomas Drummond
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
James Madison
Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.
Nellie L. McClung
When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.
Abraham Kuyper
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes." ~ ' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes." -
Clare Boothe Luce
It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Samuel Adams
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.
Horace Walpole
While I'm writing, I'm far away;and when I come back, I've gone.
Pablo Neruda
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
An advanced city is not a place where the poor move about in cars, rather it’s where even the rich use public transportation
Enrique Penalosa
We all tend to think of ourselves as the last unsinning inhabitants of whatever place we live in. We don't usually recognize ourselves as participants in its destruction.
David Owen
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body but can never be so in mind.
Cicero
Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!
Lord Byron
In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves For a bright manhood there is no such word As fail.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The interests of childhood and youth are the interests of mankind.
Edmund Storer James
It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.
Nelson Rockefeller
A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.
Dean Acheson
Writers are the engineers of human souls.
Joseph Stalin
When my journal appears many statues must come down.
Duke of Wellington
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody but one whom nobody can imitate.
Francois Rene De Chateaubriand
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest and but heal to wear That which disfigures it.
Lord Byron
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron
When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F Kennedy
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
Cicero
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Calvin Coolidge
Worry is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.
Henry Saint John
The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.
Mike Mansfield
If you see ten troubles coming down the road you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Calvin Coolidge
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.
John Lubbock
Worry is a god invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite and turns the hair gray.
Benjamin Disraeli
This world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.
Horace Walpole
Come follow me and leave the world to its babblings.
Dante Alighieri
Socrates indeed when he was asked of what country he called himself said "Of the world" for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.
Cicero
I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee.
Lord Byron
The workers are the saviors of society the redeemers of the race.
Eugene V. Debs