Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Rove

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

Phil Gramm

Sophia Loren is not a citizen.

Queen Victoria

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

Madame de Stael

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Half a truth is better than no politics.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Paul Douglas

To be a liberal one doesn't have to be a wastrel.

John Perry Barlow

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

Paul Bremer

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

Paul Begala

Always attack, Never defend.

Joseph Sobran

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

Rachel Maddow

We have built something [a nuclear stockpile] bigger than we can drive.

Niccolo Machiavelli

....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

Pat Robertson

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

Mark Twain

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Mary Robinson

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

Mary Matalin

Quit demagoguing. It's not true.

Mark Twain

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

Mitch McConnell

Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

Mitt Romney

Rick, I'll tell you what. Ten thousand bucks? Ten thousand dollar bet?

R. Kelly

Take away the In God We Trust, tell me what the hell is wrong with us.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

Oliver Herford

Diplomacy is living in state.

Oliver Goldsmith

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

Margaret Carlson

Here we will have possibly a bunch of tax dodgers deciding the election.

Mark Twain

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

Joseph P. Kennedy III

There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.

Stephen Breyer

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

Greg Boyle

All politics are local, and so in church.

James Reston

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.