Political Quotes - Page 9

• If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Fire, Advice

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• Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Leadership, Wise

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.

  Mike Huckabee

  Government, Waiting, Want

  Mike Huckabee's remarks at the Republican National Convention, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, www.npr.org. September 3, 2008.

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• When people cease to complain, they cease to think.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Thinking, People, Complaining

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• Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

  James Carville

  Government, Police, Crooks

  James Carville (2003). “Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Government, Long, Politics

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 2, ch. 1

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• Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

  George Will

  Nerd, Politics, Conservative

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• I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Country, Pain, Lying

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy.

  Alex Carey

  Wisdom, Democracies Have, Australia Day

  Alex Carey, Andrew Lohrey (1997). “Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty”, p.18, University of Illinois Press

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• That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Essence, Monopoly Power

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States".

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• Within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.

  Sarah Palin

  Blood, Hatred, Tragedy

  "Palin Criticizes Manufacturers of 'Blood Libel' as Proponents of Speech Limits Cite Sharron Angle", www.foxnews.com. January 12, 2011.

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• I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

  Augustus William Hare

  Smell, Fields, Election

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.200

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• There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

  Hermione Gingold

  Men, Politics, Enough

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• If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.

  Lindsey Nelson

  Running, Half, World

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• The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

  Lyman Bryson

  Men, Quality, Use

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• I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.

  Moses Coady

  Politics, Righteous, Leftists

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• A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

  Murray Kempton

  Politics, Where You Come, Human Nature

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• Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

  Robert Breault

  Office, Trying, Majority

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• Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."

  Robert Breault

  Father, Church, Sin

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• Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

  Robertson Davies

  Politics, Conservatism, Knows

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

  Walter Lippmann

  War, Men, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Government, People, Economic Globalization

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• When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Speech to United Negro College Fund, Indianapolis, Ind., 12 Apr. 1959

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• Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Witty, Kings

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 4

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• A right delayed is a right denied.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Rights, Rejection

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