Quotes by Politicians - Page 8

They pick a President and then for four years they pick on him.
Adlai Stevenson
My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.
George Washington
Freedom of conscience of education of speech of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
F. D. Roosevelt
Freedom of the press is the staff of life for any vital democracy.
Wendell L. Willkie
I would rather be right than President.
Henry Clay
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Washington
There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.
Charles Curtis
There is a time for all things a time to preach and a time to pray but those times have passed away there is a time to fight and that time has come!
General Peter Muhlenberg
This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
A Chinese Christian prayed every day .... "Lord reform Thy world beginning with me."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs.
Theodore Roosevelt
O Lord let me not live to be useless!
Bishop John de Stratford
Prayer should be short without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that He knows best what is good for us.
John Selden
Of all things guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
William Wilberforce
It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.
Chauncey Depew
Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.
Adlai Stevenson
Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
Leon Trotsky
The main task of a free society is to civilize the struggle for power. Slavery of the acquiescent majority to the ruthless few is the hereditary state of mankind freedom a rarely acquired characteristic.
R. H. S. Crossman
It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
Aung San Suu Kyi
If we love our country we should also love our countrymen.
Ronald Reagan
A woman seldom writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
Richard Steele
The better I get to know men the more I find myself loving dogs.
Charles de Gaulle
Practice being excited.
Bill Foster
I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown I'm underrated and there's nowhere to go but up.
Pierre S. DuPont IV
If you would be powerful pretend to be powerful.
Home Tooke
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
Henry L. Stimson
Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.
William Cobbett
It is no use blaming the men-we made them what they are-and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves-the makers of men-a little more responsible.
Nancy Astor
I made the decision. I'm accountable.
Janet Reno
Honor begets honor trust begets trust faith begets faith and hope is the mainspring of life.
Henry L. Stimson
We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.
Elizabeth Dole
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.
James W. Fulbright
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never afford himself.
Golda Meir
No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero
Never think any oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.
James A. Farley
The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles too.
Herbert Samuel
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock
Popular applause veers with the wind.
John Bright
It is a condition which confronts us - not a theory.
Grover Cleveland
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
Benjamin Disraeli
Like an armed warrior like a plumed knight James G. Blaine marched down the halls of American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country and the malign-ers of his honor.
Charles J. Ingersoll
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
Daniel O'Connell
My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff.
Theodore Roosevelt
As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?
William M. Tweed
Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.
John Nance Garner
Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.
William Whitelaw
Unlike Churchill I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice - and they poisoned him.
George Bush
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
Eugene McCarthy
They pick a president and then for four years they pick on him.
Adlai Stevenson
Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad get even.
Everett Dirksen
Forgiving is all forgetting is another thing.
Bob Rae
He's like a football coach who's smart enough to win the game and dumb enough to think it's important.
Eugene McCarthy
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honour the territorial imperative.
Eugene McCarthy
To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.
William L. Marcy
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
Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once.
Winston Churchill
Money is the mother's milk of politics.
Jesse Unruh