Politics Quotes

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Cowardice asks the question- Is it safe?
Expediency asks the question- Is it politic?
Vanity asks the question- Is it popular?
But conscience asks the question- Is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
That is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
But one must take it because it is right.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

The time is always right to do what is right.

"All the size of John’s following, but with half the stench!” one man, a tax collector, shouted to the amusement of the table. “How can that be?” asked one of the centurions, reclining at ease and holding out his cup to be filled. “John spent all his time dumping his followers into the river."

If you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

We need to teach our kids that it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair.

Charging internet tolls is like charging the toaster for electricity.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.