Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Newman

They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.

Ralph Peters

A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who.

John W. Gardner

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Max Beerbohm

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

Philip Slater

The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manufacturers) who are responsible for the death, mutilation or general wretchedness of thousands or millions are rewarded with fame, riches and prizes... If you are going to rob, rob big; if you're going to kill, kill big.

Penn Jillette

Fear is the politicians dance partner.

Marie Antoinette

In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.

Mark Levin

The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.

Marilyn Manson

Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.

Theodore Parker

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Theodore Roosevelt

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

Theodore Roosevelt

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

Theodore Roosevelt

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Kin Hubbard

Politics makes strange post-masters.

I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.

If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.

Kevin McCarthy

The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.

Laura Ingraham

...one is reminded that [John Kerry, D-MA] really just a better-looking Ted Kennedy, a richer Michael Dukakis.

James Joyce

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

Liev Schreiber

You should never ask actors about politics.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

Friedrich August von Hayek

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

Henry A. Kissinger

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Henry George

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

Helmut Kohl

I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way.

Henry David Thoreau

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

John Adams

Always stand on principle....even if you stand alone.

Roscoe Conkling

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

This is much more about politics than economics.

Lord Acton

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

John Boehner

We spend more money on antacids than we do on politics.

Peter May

You can't take the politics out of disasters. That's what politicians are supposed to do: serve their constituents.

Ray Stevens

Osama, yo Mama didn't raise you right. When you were young, she must have wrapped your turban too tight.