Quotes by Politicians - Page 21

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.
Richard Nixon
The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast but never sinks.
Everett Dirksen
Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Henry Clay
Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.
Grover Cleveland
How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?
Charles de Gaulle
There is but one way for a president to deal with the Congress and that is continuously incessantly and without interruption. If it's really going to work the relationship between the president and the Congress has got to be almost incestuous.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The strongest pressure in the world can be friendly pressure.
Lester Pearson
The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.
Talleyrand
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but above all try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The government is becoming the family of last resort.
Jerry Brown
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days nor in the life of this administration nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.
John F Kennedy
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour.
Hubert Humphrey
When we got into office the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
John F Kennedy
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Barry Goldwater
As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
Dwight Morrow
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom whilst a republic is a raft which will never sink but then your feet are always in water.
Fisher Ames
Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.
George Washington
Whenever by an unfortunate occurrence of circumstances an opposition is compelled to support the government the support should be given with a kick and not a caress and should be withdrawn at the first available moment.
Randolph Churchill
To govern is to choose.
Pierre Mendes-France
China has no income tax no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.
Chou En-lai
We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.
Charles Evans Hughes
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.
Thomas E. Dewey
The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.
Marcel Masse
A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells and when I give a man an office I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
Woodrow Wilson
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States but I never saw the Government of the United States.
Woodrow Wilson
The weak have one weapon - the errors of those who think they are strong.
Georges Bidault
Government in the last analysis is organised opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion there is likely to be bad government which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I believe the greatest asset a Head of State can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
Harold Wilson
In the Conservative view you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter.
Harold Macmillan
It would be desirable if every government when it comes to power should have its old speeches burnt.
Philip Snowden
Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.
Cyril Smith
There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
A difficulty for every solution.
Herbert Samuel
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Caius Terentius Varro
Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.
Lord Acton
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns - you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!
W. J. Bryan
The sunshine of the mind.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."
A.P. Herbert
The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.
John Morley
I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
Dante Alighieri
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life discerns his object and toward that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you.
John F Kennedy
I truly believe that before I retire from public office I'll be voting for a woman for president.
Barbara Mikulski
We have believed-and we do believe now-that freedom is indivisible that peace is indivisible that economic prosperity is indivisible.
Indira Gandhi
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
Margaret Thatcher
We're half the people we should be half the Congress.
Jeannette Rankin
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
Golda Meir
If you just set out to be liked you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher
Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
The American people can have anything they want the trouble is they don't know what they want.
Eugene V. Debs
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill
Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life I find.
John F Kennedy
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Charles J. Ingersoll
There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.
Jacob K. Javits
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
Jawaharlal Nehru