politics Quotes

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.

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.

A politician will do anything to keep his job – even become a patriot.

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.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I’m beginning to believe it.

America’s present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

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

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.