Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Gaulle

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

LeVar Burton

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

James Wolfensohn

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

James Woods

So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?

Alan Bradley

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Brit Hume

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

Brit Hume

It's not unilateral when it's 16 to 3! Can't you count?

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.

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.

Anthony Trollope

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

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.

Timothy Noah

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

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.

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.

Eleanor Clift

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

Aristotle

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

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.

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.

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.