In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
Abraham LincolnThe time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.
Richard M. NixonI confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
H. L. MenckenFor the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
PlatoSenator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.
George W. BushIt’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.
Will RogersAn election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard ShawIn my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Nelson MandelaWhen you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.
Angelina JolieWell, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
Dwight D. EisenhowerNinety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry KissingerThe United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.
Joe BidenPolitics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.
Billy GrahamNo part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Winston ChurchillThere’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.
Jimmy CarterI can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.
Barack ObamaWhat Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
George Bernard ShawI am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
Fidel CastroGovernment exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Ronald ReaganThe day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.
Madeleine AlbrightThe government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.
Noam ChomskyAs president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.
Barack ObamaAny man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
Lyndon B. JohnsonReal politics are the possession and distribution of power.
Benjamin DisraeliThe punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
PlatoA lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.
Clint EastwoodI think politicians really go with the tide.
Jimmy CarterHow long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
Alice WalkerI own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
Thomas JeffersonIn politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.
John KennedyGovernments are supposed to lie to their citizens.
Noam ChomskyLife in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
Thomas SowellIn my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
Harry S. TrumanThe only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘
Colin PowellDemocratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador DaliI don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
Henry KissingerObama, of course, outspent McCain.
Noam ChomskyThe means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
James MadisonThe issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.
Michelle ObamaThe terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.
Maya AngelouTo some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.
Noam ChomskyI think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.
Billy GrahamI claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mahatma GandhiThere are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
Alexander HamiltonThe rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
PlatoPeople who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn’t be prey to the employers who say, ‚We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.‘
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.
Harry S. TrumanLiberal: a power worshipper without power.
George OrwellI think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
Ruth Bader GinsburgNixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
James MadisonThe example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.
Jim MattisI worked with Congress on legislation, gave speeches to CEOs, military generals and Hollywood executives. But I also worked to ensure that my efforts would resonate with kids and families – and that meant doing things in a creative and unconventional way. So, yeah, I planted a garden and hula-hooped on the White House lawn with kids.
Michelle ObamaA government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard ShawIn a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
Narendra ModiOne of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.
Narendra ModiPolitics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry AdamsI do not believe we will have a war with Iran.
John Kennedy