Quotes by Politicians - Page 74

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Eugene J. McCarthy
Now as to politeness... I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.
Lord Chatham
They pick a President and then for four years they pick on him.
Adlai Stevenson
Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
Ben Carson
Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.
B.R. Ambedkar
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Pablo Neruda
Ours was the first nation to be founded on the idea that all are created equal and all deserve equal treatment under the law. Despite our missteps and shortcomings, these ideals still inspire hope among the oppressed and give us pride in being Americans.
Jimmy Carter
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears.
Dean Rusk
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may dev
Winston S. Churchill
Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
Dennis Kucinich
Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when u don't sleep before fulfilling them.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.
Aneurin Bevan
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very muchhigher.
Theodore Roosevelt
Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgement industry health. And the greatest of these is judgement.
William Maxwell Aitken
Reading takes the reader to faraway lands, new cultures, new and exciting adventures; you meet new friends and enemies; it takes the reader from the heights of the imagination to the depths of human emotions; all without taking a single step.
Carlos Salinas
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
Benjamin Carson
Some men are graduated from college cum laude some are graduated summa cum laude and some are graduated mirabile dictu.
William Howard Taft
I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one.
Horace Walpole
Believe you can, and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
Pablo Neruda
As Obama would tell me one occasion, "I can't defend it unless I understand it." I rarely saw him rush to a decision when circumstances allowed him time to gather information, analyze, and reflect...When the occasion demand it, though, Obama could make a big decision - a life-and-death decision - very fast." Page 299
Robert M. Gates
The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow Americans to slavery. This is the history we should never forget and one that we should never again put on a pedestal to be revered.
Mitch Landrieu
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.
Winston S. Churchill
Voter apathy was, and will remain the greatest threat to democracy.
Hazen Pingree
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
Winston S. Churchill
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.
John F Kennedy
While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Eugene V. Debs
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
B.R. Ambedkar
Helping those less fortunate than us is a blessed opportunity to show thanks for the gifts of life that we ourselves enjoy.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end.
Leon Gambetta
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald Reagan
Limited in his nature infinite in his desires man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame.
Dante Alighieri
Come follow me and leave the world to its babblings.
Dante Alighieri
I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.
Mohammad Hatta
it was impossible to confine a Government to the exercise of express powers; there must necessarily be admitted powers by implication, unless the Constitution descended to recount every minutia
James Madison
Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.
Donald Rumsfeld
I've never been more hopeful about our future. I have never been more hopeful about America. And I ask you to sustain that hope. I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.
Barack Obama
The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.
Julian Bond
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep
A.P. Herbert
It's easier to run a revolution than a government.
Ferdinand E. Marcos
To act with common sense according to the moment is the best wisdom and the best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.
Horace Walpole
We all live under the same sky but we don't all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer
Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
Lord Byron
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
Benjamin Disraeli
When the purpose of clearly exposing the differences between the Aryan and the Tamil culture, civilization, conduct and creed Thirukkural was written. I am of that firm view.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
John Lubbock
We have to convince people that the handouts – just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where you never grow, just get a little check and a few food stamps, it will keep you on the plantation for the rest of your life, that’s not a life. That’s not living. It is not good enough. It is not acceptable. We have to educate our people that that is no longer good. You have to get off the plantation, off the government plantation,
Elbert Guillory
In war there is no substitute for victory.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart.
David Davis
A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour.
Lord Byron
I have always been afraid of banks.
Andrew Jackson
Above all, as a Hindu I belong to the only major religion in the world that does not claim to be the only true religion. I find it immensely congenial to be able to face my fellow human beings of other faiths without being burdened by the conviction that I am embarked upon a “true path” that they have missed.
Shashi Tharoor
If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and women must accept the responsibilities that go with their freedoms.
Ronald Reagan
A book is the only immortality.
Rufus Choate
Today's politicians are like policemen on traffic duty. They are just dealing with traffic right in front of them. Yet they want to be the Superintendent based on that alone. The politicians and the bigwigs in finance have no ambition. There are too many who confuse the power that they got by their position as their own ability.
Jirō Shirasu
Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded.
Imran Khan
Give until it hurts.
Corazon Cojuangco Aquino