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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry A. Kissinger
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
Emma Goldman
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Thurgood Marshall
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers
Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston Churchill
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
Pope John Paul II
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Russell Baker
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Jimmy Carter
Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
Lewis Black
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Dan Quayle
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Grover Cleveland
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
Roger Nash Baldwin
Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
Dan Quayle
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Paddy Chayefsky
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Ross Perot
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
Dan Quayle
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
Neal Barnard
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O'Rourke
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Theodore White
The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.
P. J. O'Rourke
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
Dan Quayle
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Adlai E. Stevenson
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
Louis D. Brandeis
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Oscar Levant
The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
Dan Quayle
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
Clare Boothe Luce
The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
Dan Quayle
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
Maureen Murphy
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
Fidel Castro
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
Fidel Castro
The secret of getting things done is to act!
Dante Alighieri
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Herbert Hoover
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Bill Vaughan
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
John Foster Dulles
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
Robertson Davies
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Alexis de Tocqueville
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
Will Rogers
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Clare Boothe Luce
This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
Dan Quayle
This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.
Dan Quayle
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alexander Hamilton
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph Nader
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
Bernard Baruch
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
George Will
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
Dan Quayle
We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.
Frank Howard Clark
We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
Dan Quayle
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart Udall
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
Martin L. Gross
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
Dan Quayle
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
Dan Quayle
Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
Dan Quayle
What you guys want, I'm for.
Dan Quayle
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O'Rourke
When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
Dan Quayle
When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
Dan Quayle
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
John W. Gardner
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
Imelda Marcos
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
Dan Quayle
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert Kennedy
You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
Thomas P. O'Neill
You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
Daniel Hannan
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
John Morley
