politics Quotes

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman’s truncheon over the anarchist’s bomb.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

The first resistance to social change is to say it’s not necessary.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It’s the party of non-voters.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.

Voters don’t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.