Quotes by Politicians - Page 2

We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.
Ivy Baker Priest
You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other and put aside whatever personal hurt and disappointment you have to really understand yourself and your spouse it can be the most wonderful experience you've ever had.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.
Jeannette Rankin
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
Madeleine Albright
There is a kind of victory in good work no matter how humble.
Jack Kemp
I am only an average man but by George I work harder at it than the average man.
Theodore Roosevelt
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
Cicero
Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it deserves the attention of the United States government and the people.
John F Kennedy
When more and more people are thrown out of work unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge
Miracles sometimes occur but one has to work terribly hard for them.
Chaim Weizmann
They say hard work never hurt anybody but I figure why take the chance.
Ronald Reagan
The monarchy is a labour-intensive industry.
Harold Wilson
No task rightly done is truly private. It is part of the world's work.
Woodrow Wilson
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Man does not live by words alone despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai Stevenson
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other.
Theodore Roosevelt
Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice Her heart be sure is not of ice And one refusal no rebuff.
Lord Byron
There is a tide in the affairs of women Which taken at the flood leads - God knows where.
Lord Byron
A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour!
Lord Byron
Women forgive injuries but never forget slights.
Thomas Haliburton
In her first passion woman loves her lover In all the others all she loves is love.
Lord Byron
The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of and feeling toward women and Negroes we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.
Gunnar Myrdal
Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.
Nellie McClung
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
Golda Meir
My vigour vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
Nancy Lady Astor
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton
The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us and has worked the greatest injury to the race.
Nellie McClung
Of my two 'handicaps' being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
Shirley Chisholm
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
Golda Meir
By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman for I do care.
Nellie McClung
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Margaret Thatcher
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Margaret Thatcher
Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.
Horace Mann
If it's me against 48 I feel sorry for the 48.
Margaret Thatcher
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked.
Charles James Fox
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Adlai Stevenson
Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Few things surpass old wine and they may preach Who please the more because they preach in vain - Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.
Lord Byron
In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife He would have written sonnets all his life?
Lord Byron
Go West young man and grow up with the country.
Horace Greeley
Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home.
Lord Byron
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
Bonar Law
Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.
Frank Knox
Veni vidi vici. (I came I saw I conquered.)
Julius Caesar
Great Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her.
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
There will be no veterans of World War III.
Walter Mondale
The guerilla must live amongst the people as the fish lives in the water.
Mao Tse-Tung
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John F Kennedy
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
Duke of Wellington
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Duke of Wellington
War would end if the dead could return.
Stanley Baldwin
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities.
John Foster Dulles
There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
Bonar Law
No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.
Winston Churchill
I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy but by God they frighten me.
Duke of Wellington
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy.
Woodrow Wilson