Quotes by Politicians - Page 17

José Ramos-Horta

We believe in equality for all, and privileges for none. This is a belief that each American regardless of background has equal standing in the public forum, all of us. Because we believe this idea so firmly, we are an inclusive, rather than an exclusive party. Let everybody come.

Barbara Jordan

As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?

William M. Tweed

Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife He would have written sonnets all his life?

Lord Byron

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other, as this Writ of Assistance is.

James Otis

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Václav Havel

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. JFK

John F Kennedy

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

Barack Obama

I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and courage. This is a call to arms.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

She deceiving I believing What need lovers wish for more?

Sir Charles Sedley

Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli

I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghettoCuz where else in death do I get to go?

Carlos Salinas

Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to the one who praises you. Learn from them and do something about it.

paul kagame

Multiculturalism should not mean that we tolerate another culture’s intolerance. If we do in fact support diversity, women’s rights, and gay rights, then we cannot in good conscience give Islam a free pass on the grounds of multicultural sensitivity.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

B.R. Ambedkar

Then none was for a party;Then all were for the state;Then the great man helped the poor,And the poor man loved the great;Then lands were fairly proportioned;Then spoils were fairly sold;The Romans were like brothersIn the brave days of old.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

Phil Gramm

Give me kisses! Nay, 'tis true I am just as rich as you; And for every kiss I owe, I can pay you back, you know. Kiss me, then, Every moment, and again.

John Godfrey Saxe

Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire: that is MUHAMMAD. As regards all the standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask IS THERE ANY MAN GREATER THAN HE?

Alphonse de Lamartine

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Nelson Mandela

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Pablo Neruda

In the long run, success or failure will beconditioned upon the way in which the average man, the average women, does his or her duty, first in the ordinary, every-day affairs of life, and next in those great occasional cries which call for heroic virtues. The average citizen must be a good citizen if our republics are to succeed. The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation.

Theodore Roosevelt

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Political parties serve to keep each other in check one keenly watching the other.

Henry Clay

I have no time in the world but the time in which I amand that lasts a moment and passes like a cloud.

Samuel ha-Nagid

Whether on the scaffold high. Or on the battle-field we die Oh what matter when for Erin dear we fall.

T. D. Sullivan

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same thing

Adolf Hitler

The rich and large corporations get richer, the CEOs earn huge compensation packages, and when things get bad, don't worry; Uncle Sam and the American taxpayers are here to bail you out. But when you are in trouble, well, we just can't afford to help you, if you are in the working class or middle class of this country.

Bernie Sanders

As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

President George Washington

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Golda Meir

I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.

Charles de Gaulle

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

John F Kennedy

Pain changes people for better or for worse. It can change a fledging, naive person to a strong, courageous person or on the other end of the spectrum, sadly however, a devout and pious Christian to a smoking meathead.

Boniface Sagini

If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.

John Bingham

If one had but a single glance to give the world one should gaze on Istanbul.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Unlike Churchill I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice - and they poisoned him.

George Bush

Never underestimate yourself when you do what is right. Never overestimate yourself when you do what is wrong.

Roy Bennett

This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!

Adolf Hitler

At the end of a long introduction: You omitted perhaps one thing - that in 1974 I had a hemorrhoidectomy.

Howell Heflin

The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.

George Washington

May it please your Majesty I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me whose servant I am here.

William Lenthall

Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.

Pablo Neruda

Meeting a dragon is like falling in love. Even though you have never experienced it before, you will know when it has happened.

Bill Richardson

Its culture: the fruit of its life, the product of its own efforts in thought and art. This culture is not international. It is the expression of the national genius, of the blood. The culture is international in its brilliance but national in origin. Someone made a fine comparison: bread and wheat may be internationally consumed, but they always bear the imprint of the soil from which they came.

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.

Ezra Taft Benson

If you want to know my personality, look through my bedroom window and see how I act.

Benjamin ndayishimiye

Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

Horace Walpole

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Newt Gingrich

We shall all respect the principle of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act oppression to any portion of the people

Alexander Mackenzie

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as [inherently] exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

Vladimir Putin

The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny.

Calvin Coolidge

If the pursuit of peace is both old and new it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated for it has to do with people and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.

Adlai Stevenson

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Frédéric Bastiat

Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences - radiating painful roots into the community and into the family, and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice, and present prejudice.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There was a new simplicity to what I did, a door that had opened before me to worlds I had not imagined. From where I sat, if you watched carefully you could marvel at it, like the impossible birth of a cottonseed or the slow rise of a wooden house: the steady construction of a man, built brick by brick from the shadow of a boy.

Michael Johnston

Benazir Bhutto doesn't cease to exist the moment she gets married. I am not giving myself away. I belong to myself and I always shall.

Benazir Bhutto

There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.

Roy Bennett

But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near

Andrew Marvell

If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.

Steve Stockman

faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts... [you] still experience the same greed, resentment, lust, and anger that everyone else experienced... the lines between sinner and saved [are] more fluid; the sins of those who come to church are not so different from the sins of those who don't... You [need] to come to church precisely because you [are] of this world, not apart from it; rich, poor, sinner, saved you [need] to embrace Christ precisely because you had sins to wash away... that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for economic and social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world...

Barack Obama

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