Quotes by Politicians - Page 82

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.
Al Gore
I do not read for I have renounced life, I read because one life is just not enough for me.
Abbas Al-Akkad
There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. It is manifest in so many ways, such as faultfinding, gossiping, backbiting, and murmuring, living beyond our means, envying, coveting, withholding gratitude and praise that might lift another, and being unforgiving and jealous.
Ezra Taft Benson
You are ultimately responsible for your life and no one else.
John Spender
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
Indira Gandhi
Baggage? Who are you talking to? I am the Maharajah of baggage. I could fly to the moon and back and never have to do laundry.
P.J. Patterson
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington
Religious devotion is for the individual. Character is for all. There is no loss if there is no devotion. Everything is lost if there is no character.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
Jimmy Carter
To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end of my existence, with no successor existence of any kind that can be related to me as I now am. And if that is not the case, the next most likely scenario, it seems to me, is something along the lines indicated by Schopenhauer. But neither of these is what I most want. What I want to be true is that I have an individual, innermost self, a soul, which is the real me and which survives my death. That too could be true. But alas, I do not believe it.
Bryan Magee
In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society.
Winston S. Churchill
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.
Ezra Taft Benson
Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.
Winston S. Churchill
I will never abandon one opportunity and wait for another. We have not reached the goal we are striving for. What you see now is nothing compared to our vision…just tiny parts of what lies ahead.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it they pay the penalty but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.
Calvin Coolidge
The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you’re up to.
George Hammond
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
Cicero
Johnson had a sense of humor, and he could kid with me,” he would say. “Johnson didn’t enjoy talking with most liberals. He didn’t think they had a sense of humor.
Hubert H. Humphrey
It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.
John Jay
In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?
Jesse Ventura
I wish I was as sure of anything as Macaulay is of everything.
William Windham
What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.
Bob Barr
So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries one here and one in Europe national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.
Henri Bourassa
No excuses will lead to no regrets which will give you no limits to your potential.
James Gordon