Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Rogers

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

Will Rogers

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

Zora Neale Hurston

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

William H. Seward

Revolutions never go backward.

Joseph Howe

Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good deal of our politics is physiological.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

Lee Greenwood

The flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

Ronald Reagan

Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder

Tony Benn

When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

Tony Benn

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

Tony Benn

In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once

Tony Benn

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Stanley Baldwin

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals-they always come in handy.

Silvio Berlusconi

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

Victor Davis Hanson

A Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, George Soros, or Al Gore looks - no, acts - like he either came out of a hairstylist's salon or got off a Gulfstream.

Red Skelton

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

Rush Limbaugh

There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons... use them.

Rush Limbaugh

I was not wrong. I was just misinformed.

Van Morrison

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

W. Somerset Maugham

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well