politics Quotes

In politics nothing is contemptible.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it’s a sport.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows.

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.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.