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Politics Quotes


If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

Thomas Sowell
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Winston Churchill
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Milton Friedman
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

Dan Quayle
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

J. William Fulbright
In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

Dan Quayle
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

Dick Gregory
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Charles de Gaulle
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Charles de Gaulle
In politics nothing is contemptible.

Benjamin Disraeli
In politics the middle way is none at all.

John Adams
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

H. L. Mencken
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Ronald Reagan
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Doug Larson
It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

Sandra Day O'Connor
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Mohandas Gandhi
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Sandra Day O'Connor
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Joseph Stalin
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

George MacDonald