Politics Quotes

Since the country had absolutely no mineral wealth and the strategic importance of a banana, it was accelerated toward self-government with almost unseemly haste.

In America, anyone can become president. It's one of the risks we take.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk or running for office.

All failures end in political careers.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

Why the need for “But let me be clear” — unless what preceded it most certainly was not too clear?

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

...you can never know what a man is made of,
His character or powers of intellect,
Until you have seen him tried in rule and office.
A man who holds the reins of government
And does not follow the wisest policies
But let something scare him from saying what
he thinks,
I hold despicable, and always have done.
Nor have i time for anyone who puts
His popularity before his country.

We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make

The commitment I seek is not to outworn views but to old values that will never wear out. Programs may sometimes become obsolete, but the ideal of fairness always endures. Circumstances may change, but the work of compassion must continue.

Yes, we are all Americans. This is what we do. We reach the moon. We scale the heights. I know it. I've seen it. I've lived it. And we can do it again.

We have learned that it is important to take issues seriously, but never to take ourselves too seriously.

Puerto Rico will be the first half-and-half banana republic state incorporated that will secede from the union. Then will come Liberty Island, then Mississippi Burning, Texas BBQ, Kentucky Fried Chicken—all of them—New York Yankees, Jersey Devils—you name it—will want to break apart—and demand a separation—a divorce. Things will not go well for the banana republic when the shackles and chains of democracy break loose and unleash the dogs of war.

The suicide bomber is an explosion of a contradiction in its paradox, victim and victimizer, yin and yang, two sides of the coin, fire bomb and fire extinguisher, prosecutor and defendant, hangman and hanged.

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

If any other politician anywhere in the world was stuck on a zipwire, it would be a disaster. For Boris, it's an absolute triumph.

"Let them call me a rebel and welcome it. Fore I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils were I to make a whore of my soul"

Its January 31st 2012, and it is 60 degrees in the City of Chicago, but that's not global warming, nah. The religious folk say that God is just opening his arms and giving the world a big hug today.

A man who sets his face against every sort of humbug is simply a three-cornered, impracticable fellow. There's a bad sort of humbug, but there is also a good style - one that oils the wheels and makes progress possible. If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas... There is no action possible without a little acting.

Just because I choose to act unethically, does not mean that I don't know what the right way is