Quotes by Politicians

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
Frédéric Bastiat
In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
Adlai E. Stevenson II
Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.
George Washington
They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Vexed sailors curse the rain For which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Ronald Reagan
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
Leon Trotsky
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
An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Adlai Stevenson
I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.
Eugene V. Debs
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir
To wander solitary there:Two paradises ‘twere in oneTo live in paradise alone.
Andrew Marvell
I never aspired to be the PM...Why should I quit over a silly issue like corruption? - Devender Singh
Tuhin A. Sinha
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
Barack Obama
In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salvation. As we begin to master the destructive potentialities of modern science, we move toward a new era in which science can fulfill its creative promise and help bring into existence the happiest society the world has ever known.
John F Kennedy
Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.
Arthur Balfour
It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
Benito Mussolini
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban
For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.
Lord Byron
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
John F Kennedy
It is not unpatriotic to acknowledge America’s faults. No country is perfect… We can’t reach the top of the mountain if we don’t fix the injustice and confront our lies.
Keith Ellison
A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.
Dean Acheson
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Benjamin Disraeli
Every child needs a champion.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. And when you stumble, keep faith. And when you’re knocked down, get right back up, and never listen to anyone who says you can’t or shouldn’t go on.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.
Nelson Mandela
Destroying the joint means building a new system in which it is not OK to allow people to be marginalised, exploited and discriminated against, it's not OK to ignore the needs of future generations, it's not OK to wreck this extraordinary, beautiful, fragile planetary environment that sustains us - our Mother Earth.
Christine Milne
When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.
John F Kennedy
Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.
George Hammond
It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.
Alexander Hamilton
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden".
Ruth Rendell
You gotta remember the smartest thing the Congress did was to limit the voters in this country. Out of 3 1/2 to 4 million people, 200,000 voted. And that was true for a helluva long time, and the republic would have never survived if all the dummies had voted along with the intelligent people.
Richard Nixon
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
Bill Bradley
Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit
Jawaharlal Nehru
Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, "Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.
Winston S. Churchill
Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
B.R. Ambedkar
It is known that the Quran leaves an analytical reader the impression of disarrangement, and that it seems to be a compound of diverse elements. Nevertheless, the Quran is life, not literature. Islam is a way of living rather than a way of thinking. The only authentic comment of the Quran can be life, and as we know, it was the life of the prophet Muhammad. Islam is in its written form (the Quran) may seem disorderly, but in the life of Muhammad it proves itself to be a natural union of love and force, the sublime and the real, the divine and the human. This explosive compound of religion and politics produced enormous force in the life of the peoples who accepted it. In one moment, Islam has coincided with the very essence of life.
Alija Izetbegović
We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
I would like to believe he's sick rather than just mean and evil.
Charles B. Rangel
Had we but world enough, and time
Andrew Marvell
It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.
Baron Rothschild
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
Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.
Pablo Neruda
Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.
Frédéric Bastiat
Doing what is right isn't the problem it's knowing what is right.
Lyndon B. Johnson
History teaches usthat men and nationsonly behave wiselyonce they have exhaustedall other alternatives."--
Abba Eban
I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.
Ingrid Betancourt
America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.
Sarah Palin
But what minutes! Count them by sensation and not by calendars and each moment is a day.
Benjamin Disraeli
If two parties with two sets of bad ideas cooperate, the result is not good policy, but policy that is extremely bad. What we really need are correct economic and politcal ideas, regardless of the party that pushes them.
Ron Paul
He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
Brigham Young
Don't be so humble. You're not that great.
Golda Meir
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socia
Earl Warren
The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.
Tommy Douglas
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.
Václav Havel
Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.
Sam Rayburn
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
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
Louis Blanc