| Quote 15 | A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. |
| Quote 23 | A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an ... |
| Quote 70 | Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. |
| Quote 110 | A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. |
| Quote 115 | As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
- Daniel J. Boorstin |
| Quote 130 | A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. |
| Quote 145 | Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. |
| Quote 154 | A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. |
| Quote 161 | Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. |
| Quote 174 | Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. |
| Quote 179 | An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. |
| Quote 204 | A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. |
| Quote 209 | Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. |
| Quote 277 | All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what... |
| Quote 312 | A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. |
| Quote 332 | After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain. |
| Quote 336 | A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. |
| Quote 375 | Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. |
| Quote 412 | Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. |
| Quote 419 | A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. |
| Quote 422 | Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. |
| Quote 692 | Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. |
| Quote 719 | When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. |
| Quote 1519 | You may think the President is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord. |
| Quote 1879 | I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. |
| Quote 2344 | It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. |
| Quote 2904 | When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. |
| Quote 2909 | I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. |
| Quote 3037 | Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. |
| Quote 3521 | Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. |
| Quote 3684 | Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit... |
| Quote 3886 | The secret of getting things done is to act!
- Dante Alighieri |
| Quote 4169 | He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. |
| Quote 4746 | The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. |
| Quote 5097 | The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justi... |
| Quote 5247 | I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice... |
| Quote 7656 | You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. |
| Quote 7657 | Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. |
| Quote 7709 | Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. |
| Quote 7724 | Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. |
| Quote 7755 | A fool and his money are soon elected.
- Caskie Stinnett |
| Quote 7808 | Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. |
| Quote 7841 | If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. |
| Quote 7850 | Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. |
| Quote 7874 | He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. |
| Quote 7980 | The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. |
| Quote 8026 | A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. |
| Quote 8077 | If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. |
| Quote 8098 | If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. |
| Quote 8105 | Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. |
| Quote 8133 | Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for th... |
| Quote 8139 | I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days. |
| Quote 8203 | The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. |
| Quote 8288 | I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. |
| Quote 8338 | Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois. |
| Quote 8347 | I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. |
| Quote 8431 | It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms. |
| Quote 8436 | In politics the middle way is none at all.
- John Adams |
| Quote 8469 | The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes offic... |
| Quote 8515 | 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... |
| Quote 8523 | In politics nothing is contemptible.
- Benjamin Disraeli |
| Quote 8597 | Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. |
| Quote 8628 | A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. |
| Quote 8688 | The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accid... |
| Quote 8713 | What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. |
| Quote 8742 | My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wo... |
| Quote 8756 | Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use t... |
| Quote 8786 | I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. |
| Quote 8788 | We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. |
| Quote 8807 | I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. |
| Quote 8834 | Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. |
| Quote 8856 | The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republica... |
| Quote 8885 | Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule anot... |
| Quote 8966 | Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civiliza... |
| Quote 9036 | If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have... |
| Quote 9058 | And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office. |
| Quote 9066 | I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. |
| Quote 9085 | The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong. |
| Quote 9096 | Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. |
| Quote 9148 | In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. |
| Quote 9199 | Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. |
| Quote 9253 | Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. |
| Quote 9271 | Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. |
| Quote 9392 | Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of huma... |
| Quote 9407 | Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. |
| Quote 9445 | I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. |
| Quote 9467 | Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. |
| Quote 9568 | The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable cr... |
| Quote 9628 | Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. |
| Quote 9684 | We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. |
| Quote 9722 | The most important political office is that of the private citizen. |
| Quote 9726 | Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. |
| Quote 9749 | My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. |
| Quote 9814 | A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money. |
| Quote 9820 | Television is democracy at its ugliest.
- Paddy Chayefsky |
| Quote 9822 | If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. |
| Quote 9840 | 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 labe... |
| Quote 9912 | The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless... |
| Quote 9962 | For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. |
| Quote 10002 | America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. |
| Quote 10098 | If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. |
| Quote 10160 | You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job. |
| Quote 10200 | There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. |
| Quote 10220 | Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. |
| Quote 10239 | When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. |
| Quote 10286 | 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. |
| Quote 10393 | The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, ... |
| Quote 10462 | One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. |
| Quote 10560 | Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. |
| Quote 10571 | The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. |
| Quote 10624 | Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. |
| Quote 10673 | Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. |
| Quote 10748 | We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. |
| Quote 10775 | It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. |
| Quote 10822 | If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs yo... |
| Quote 10831 | Voting is a civic sacrament.
- Theodore Hesburgh |
| Quote 10911 | Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. |
| Quote 10912 | I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. |
| Quote 11019 | Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? |
| Quote 11028 | No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. |
| Quote 11151 | Politics have no relation to morals.
- Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Quote 11226 | You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding t... |
| Quote 11281 | Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
- Milton Friedman |
| Quote 11314 | Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. |
| Quote 11332 | 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his pri... |
| Quote 11387 | The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. |
| Quote 11460 | Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Quote 11495 | Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. |
| Quote 11801 | The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. |
| Quote 11972 | The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. |
| Quote 11978 | 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. |
| Quote 12045 | I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmoni... |
| Quote 12119 | Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us ... |
| Quote 12165 | Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. |
| Quote 12255 | The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. |
| Quote 12262 | I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. |
| Quote 12440 | The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. |
| Quote 12560 | You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. |
| Quote 12733 | Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. |
| Quote 12813 | If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. |
| Quote 12860 | Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. |
| Quote 12890 | The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealis... |
| Quote 12912 | The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. |
| Quote 12934 | Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. |
| Quote 13055 | The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. |
| Quote 13078 | Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. |
| Quote 13120 | When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. |
| Quote 13205 | So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. |
| Quote 13268 | They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. |
| Quote 13289 | I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I tal... |
| Quote 13290 | Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. |
| Quote 13339 | I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. |
| Quote 13378 | When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. |
| Quote 13380 | You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman |
| Quote 13396 | Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. |
| Quote 13481 | Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. |
| Quote 13516 | We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure. |
| Quote 13528 | When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. |
| Quote 13565 | Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. |
| Quote 13601 | Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. |
| Quote 13631 | If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words. |
| Quote 13693 | One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. |
| Quote 13719 | The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama... |
| Quote 13728 | In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport. |
| Quote 13762 | Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. |
| Quote 13999 | In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
- J. William Fulbright |
| Quote 14034 | The world is governed by opinion.
- William Ellery Channing |
| Quote 14038 | If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. |
| Quote 14075 | If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to d... |