Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Bradley

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

Camille Paglia

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

Caspar Weinberger

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

Charley Reese

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

Charles Krauthammer

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Billy Joel

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

Dean Acheson

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

David Ricardo

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

David Hume

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Dennis Miller

I went to the UN and even the guidebook was spineless.

Dennis Miller

Al Gore couldn't be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator

Dennis Miller

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.

Ed Koch

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

Charles de Gaulle

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

Charles H. Percy

Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

Bernard Malamud

Politics isn't in my nature.

Norman Finkelstein

Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.

Walter Savage Landor

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Jeremy Corbyn

We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.

U.S. politicians are increasingly recognizing the relevance of the Hispanic vote in U.S. politics.

Benjamin Franklin

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

Arthur Balfour

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

Anthony Trollope

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

William Shakespeare

Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.

Bob Dole

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

Bob Dylan

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

Bob Dylan

Freedom just around the corner for you, but with the truth so far off, what good will it do?

Bob Dylan

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

Bruce Friedrich

It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.

Timothy Noah

Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.

Craig Ferguson

I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.

Eli Pariser

We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.

Brit Hume

How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?