Quotes by Politicians - Page 6

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.

James Mackintosh

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In politics guts is all.

Barbara Castle

Begin each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.

Roy Bennett

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

Winston S. Churchill

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert F. Kennedy

I never forgive but I always forget.

Arthur James Balfour

We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics...they will only grow louder and more dissonant ........... We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

Barack Obama

Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that hang over human government and human society as "malice domestic and fierce foreign war." We are not rid of these dangers but we can summon our intelligence to meet them.Never was there more genuine reason for Americans to face down these two causes of fear. "Malice domestic" from time to time will come to you in the shape of those who would raise false issues, pervert facts, preach the gospel of hate, and minimize the importance of public action to secure human rights or spiritual ideals. There are those today who would sow these seeds, but your answer to them is in the possession of the plain facts of our present condition.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

Donald J. Trump

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

Arthur Wellesley

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

Cyril Smith

It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.

Roy Bennett

...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.

Fidel Castro

Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.

Adlai Stevenson

Time is an opportunity with every providence of God to reveal His Will.

JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA

Even on the saddest nightin times of servitudethere is always someone who resiststhere is always someone who says no.

Manuel Alegre

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

John F Kennedy

Hunger is not debatable.

Harry Hopkins

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith.

J. William Fulbright (Senator)

I feel like a Bull Moose.

Theodore Roosevelt

Learn to think continentally.

Alexander Hamilton

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

Woodrow Wilson

And sometimes I do freak out. Sometimes I get offended. I feel anxious, but it’s okay, because it usually goes away.

Boniface Sagini

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.

Enoch Powell

Come see the cherry trees of a water constellationand the round key of the rapid universe,come touch the fire of instantaneous blue,come before its petals are consumed.

Pablo Neruda

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Theodore Roosevelt

You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons like lots of things are done with uranium including some bad things.

Donald J. Trump

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Benjamin Disraeli

I am alone. I am here. No one is watching me. In these hours of silence that I cherish, I talk to myself and reflect. That past, entrenched in time, motionless and infinite, has vanished onto thin air. None of it remains. Why, therefore, am I hurting so much? Why did I bring back with me this nameless pain? I followed the path I set for myself, and I have forgiven. I do not want to be chained to hatred or resentment. I want to have the right to live in peace.

Ingrid Betancourt

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains.

Joe Biden

A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there.

Joseph Devlin

Don't say what you think

Thomas Matlhako

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.

Winston S. Churchill

Never think any oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.

James A. Farley

The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely...

Cheikh Anta Diop

After order and liberty economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.

Calvin Coolidge

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward 'Gentlemen let there be no mistake. I should make a good president but a very bad candidate.'

James Bryce

In the future, we should anticipate seeing more hybrid wars where conventional warfare, irregular warfare, asymmetric warfare, and information warfare all blend together, creating a very complex and challenging situation to the combatants; therefore it will require military forces to posses hybrid capabilities, which might help deal with hybrid threats.

Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Any philosophy, whether of a religious or political nature - and sometimes the dividing line is hard to determine - fights less for the negative destruction of the opposing ideology than for the positive promotion of its own. Hence its struggle is less defensive than offensive. It therefore has the advantage even in determining the goal, since this goal represents the victory of its own idea, while, conversely,it is hard to determine when the negative aim of the destruction of a hostile doctrine may be regarded as achieved and assured. For this reason alone, the philosophy's offensive will be more systematic and also more powerful than the defensive against a philosophy, since here, too, as always, the attack and not the defence makes the decision. The fight against a spiritual power with methods of violence remains defensive, however, until the sword becomes the support,the herald and disseminator, of a new spiritual doctrine.

Adolf Hitler

Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity.

Roy Bennett

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon Voltaire or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Talleyrand

Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.

William Jennings Bryan

I care not what others think of what I do but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!

Theodore Roosevelt

My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. And had I not been born in Bad Munstereifel. If we had lived in the city -- well, I"m not saying the event would have gone unnoticed, but the fuss would probably only have lasted a week before public interest moved elsewhere. Besides, in a city you are anonymous; the chances of being picked out as Kristel Kolvenbach's granddaughter would be virtually zero. But in a small town -- well, small towns everywhere are rife with gossip, but in Germany they raise it to an art form.

Helen Grant

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

John F Kennedy

There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.

George W. Bush

Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... "Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?"Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price

Winston S. Churchill

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Woodrow Wilson

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

Ron Paul

And then came a damp, cold night in Flanders, through which we marched in silence, and when the day began to emerge from the mists, suddenly an iron greeting came whizzing at us over our heads, and with a sharp report sent the little pellets flying between our ranks, ripping up the wet ground; but even before the little cloud had passed, from two hundred throats the first hurrah rose to meet the first messenger of death. Then a crackling and a roaring, a singing and a howling began, and with feverish eyes each one of us was drawn forward, faster and faster, until suddenly past turnip fields and hedges the fight began, the fight of man against man. And from the distance the strains of a song reached our ears, coming closer and closer, leaping from company to company, and just as Death plunged a busy hand into our ranks, the song reached us too and we passed it along: Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles, über Alles in der Welt!

Adolf Hitler

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness in another.

Eustace Budgell

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

Alexander Hamilton

Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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