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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Leo Rosten
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Albert Pike
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
George C. Wallace
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S. Truman
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold H. Glasow
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Spiro T. Agnew
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
George Will
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Robert Byrne
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
Robert Orben
El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
Dan Quayle
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
Lady Bird Johnson
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
John W. Gardner
Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
Edward Kennedy
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry B. Adams
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. Fields
I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
William Gilbert
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle
I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.
Gerhard Schroeder
I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
Dan Quayle
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
Dan Quayle
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Arthur C. Clarke
I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
Dan Quayle
I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future.
Dan Quayle
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson
I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
Dan Quayle
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
Edward Koch
I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
Dan Quayle
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
Dan Quayle
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
Sydney Pollack
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
Gary Hart
I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
Dan Quayle
I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
Dan Quayle
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater
I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
Dan Quayle
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
Will Rogers
I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
Oliver Stone
I've never professed to be anything but an average student.
Dan Quayle
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
Meg Greenfield
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
William Tecumseh Sherman
If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words.
Esther B. Fein
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Nelson Mandela
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Emma Goldman
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis D. Brandeis
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
Hyman Rickover
If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.
Edward Koch
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
Dan Quayle
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. William Fulbright
In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!
Dan Quayle
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
Dick Gregory
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles de Gaulle
In politics nothing is contemptible.
Benjamin Disraeli
In politics the middle way is none at all.
John Adams
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson
It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
Sandra Day O'Connor
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mohandas Gandhi
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Sandra Day O'Connor
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
George MacDonald
It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
Dan Quayle
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
Dan Quayle
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Daniel Webster
Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
Dan Quayle
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Kahlil Gibran
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas B. Macaulay
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
John F. Kennedy
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
Dan Quayle
My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
Sandra Day O'Connor
