Greatest Political Quotes

• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Memorable, Europe

  Remarks at Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany, 12 June 1987

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• To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Patriotic, Race, Political

  "Ceremonies Mark Constitution Day". The New York Times. Message to the National Security League in honor of Constitution Day, September 17, 1923.

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• Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in this country [America]. ... There's more natural resources than any nation in the world; the greatest education population in the world; the greatest technology of any country in the world; the greatest capacity for innovation in the world; and the greatest political system in the world.

  Edward Kennedy

  Running, Country, Technology

  Interview with Roger Mudd, October 12, 1979.

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• The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Destiny, Men

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• Donald Trump's fought maybe the greatest political machine in the history of the world.

  Eric Trump

  Political, Machines, World

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• There’s a whole psychological reason for those cartoons about good against evil. We have "Superman" and all those other hero people, so that we can go out into life and try to be something. I’ve got most of Disney’s animated movies on video-tapes, and when we watch them. Oh, I could just eat it, eat it. […] Jimmy Cricket, Pinocchio, Mickey Mouse – these are world-known characters. Some of the greatest political figures have come to the United States to meet them.

  Michael Jackson

  Hero, Character, People

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• ...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

  Leonard Read

  Government, Political, World

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• I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Political, Principles, Constitution

  "The Philosophy of Paine" by Thomas A. Edison, June 7, 1925.

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• A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system, and encourages propensities destructive to its happiness. It wars against industry, frugality, and economy, and it fosters the evil spirits of extravagance and speculation.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, War, Evil

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1853). “Speeches in the convention to amend the constitution of Massachusetts ; Speeches in Congress”, p.394

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• There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution.

  John Adams

  Party, Humble, Government

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.511

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• Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Leader, Political, Century

  Interview with Alberto Statera published in La Stampa, April 1994.

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• And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

  Wavy Gravy

  Political, Needs, Looks

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• From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, Political, Tea

  Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

  Daniel Webster

  Evil, Political, Currency

  Daniel Webster (1832). “Mr. Webster's Speeches in the Senate Upon the Question of Renewing the Charter of the Bank of the United States”, p.5

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• Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. Because storytelling is a form of persuasive jujitsu, and because world is full of black belt storytellers, the corporate leader has to train both his offensive and defensive moves

  Robert McKee

  Moving, Two, Profound

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• My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Political, Mouths, Kind

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• You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

  Paul Tsongas

  Country, Achievement, Political

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