Quotes by Politicians - Page 7

We have not erased history; we are becoming part of the city's history by righting the wrong image these monuments represent and crafting a better, more complete future for all our children and for future generations.

Mitch Landrieu

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

Leon Trotsky

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

Follow me if I advance kill me if I retreat revenge me if I die!

Ngo Dinh Diem

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Ronald Reagan

You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

We have undoubtedly achieved Pakistan, and that too without bloody war, practically peacefully, by moral and intellectual force, and with the power of the pen, which is no less mighty than that of the sword and so our righteous cause has triumphed. Are we now going to besmear and tarnish this greatest achievement for which there is no parallel in the history of the world? Pakistan is now a fait accompli and it can never be undone, besides, it was the only just, honourable, and practical solution of the most complex constitutional problem of this great subcontinent. Let us now plan to build and reconstruct and regenerate our great nation...

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Hope is the poor man's bread.

Gary Herbert

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Nelson Mandela

There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.

Golda Meir

I am aware always that the powers that be are so strong, we can not go headlong to pit our forces, it would be suicidal, so we had that position. Which Lenin himself said that 'it is not only foolish to launch an armed revolution but it is a leftist criminal adventurism when the people are not ready to support it.' The people are not ready, they don't even understand what we are talking about.. . . Yes, even socialism is not yet understood by people, much less communism. And the rich are very afraid of communism because it means confiscation of their wealth and liquidation of their lives.

Luis Taruc

Wisdom of the Ages: "Ski-ing" The act of visiting Polish people.

Matthew Heines

Let's face it there's lots of spoiled kids out there . . . because you can't spank Grandma.

Janet Anderson

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

Barack Obama

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.To hear the immense night, still more immense without her,And the verse falls to the snow like dew to the pasture.

Pablo Neruda

Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But peace, like almost all things of this world, has its price, a high but a measurable one. We in Poland do not know the concept of peace at any price. There is only one thing in the lives of men, nations and countries that is without price. That thing is honor.

Józef Beck

So long as there are forces of other countries in a place where they have no right to be, irrespective of our rights." (said this to the countries supporting Pakistan's aggression on Kashmir)

Krishna Menon

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Harold Macmillan

When Fortune empties her chamberpot on your head smile and say 'We are going to have a summer shower.'

John A. Macdonald

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.

Jimmy Carter

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.

Barack Obama

Damn your principles! Stick to your party!

Benjamin Disraeli

Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."Winston Churchill: "Madame,i f you were my wife, I'd drink it!"(Exchange with Winston Churchill)

Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

To all the women, and especially the young women, who put their faith in this campaign and in me, I want you to know that nothing has made me prouder than to be your champion. Now, I know we have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling, but some day someone will and hopefully sooner than we might think right now.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

Colin Powell

...intricate stone carvings and wood trim gave the law school an almost medieval feel. You'd even sometimes hear that we went to HLS (Hogwarts Law School).

J.D. Vance

Islam affords women their rightful status, and encourages them to work in all sectors, as long as they are afforded appropriate respect.

Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism

Alexander Hamilton

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

Nelson Mandela

It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life.

Cicero

And so this letter endswith no sadness:my feet are firm upon the earth,my hand writes this letter on the road,and in the midst of life I shall bealwaysbeside the friend, facing the enemy,with your name on my mouthand a kiss that neverbroke away from yours.

Pablo Neruda

Marxism rejected the family and the state, but in practice it kept these institutions. Every pure religion disapproved of man's worrying about this world, but as the ideology of living people, it accepted the struggle for social justice and a better world. Marxism has had to accept some degree of individual freedom and religion some use of force. It is obvious in real life that man cannot live according to a consistent philosophy.

Alija Izetbegović

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

Henry Clay

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring what others think.

Roy Bennett

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

John F Kennedy

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

Woodrow Wilson

Our history, especially that of the great religions, Christianity in particular, has given us a "hidden prejudice" in favor of the "beyond" at the expense of the "here and now" and this must be changed.(quoted from The Age of Atheists" by Peter Watson, p 25)

Luc Ferry

If Lincoln were alive today he'd be turning over in his grave.

Gerald R. Ford

minorityhood is a state of mind, Mr. Diggs. It is a sense of powerlessness, of being out of the mainstream, of being here on sufferance. I refuse to let others define me that way. I tell my fellow Muslims: No one can make you a minority without your consent.

Shashi Tharoor

If you really want to hurt, find someone who loves you.

C.J. Langenhoven

In victory even the cowardly like to boast while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

Sallust

Sometimes when one person is missing the whole world seems depopulated.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Prayer should be short without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that He knows best what is good for us.

John Selden

No one can make you successful, the will to succeed comes from within

Fabrizio Moreira

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to enjoy but which they fully expected their offspring to fulfill. So the words 'all men are created equal' took a life of its own, ultimately destined to end slavery and enfranchise women. And the words 'equal protection' and 'due process' inevitably led to the end of the words 'separate but equal,' ensuring that the walls of segregation would crumble, whether at the lunch counter or at the voting booth.

Joe Biden

In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and liberty-loving instincts of the people. These later years have been full of talk about commerce and dinner pails, but I feel sure that the American conscience and the American love of liberty have not been smothered. They will break through this crust of sordidness and realize that those only keep their liberties who accord liberty to others.

Benjamin Harrison

Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

Winston S. Churchill

I love you like the plant that does not bloomand carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowers,

Pablo Neruda

I am asked – and I’m speaking to young Canada now – are there rewards in public life? There are – not monetary but there is a tremendous satisfaction in being able to say I tried, I stood.

John G. Diefenbaker

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai Stevenson

Love, my territory of kisses and volcanoes.

Pablo Neruda

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Do your best and let God do the rest.

Ben Carson

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