Politics Quotes - Page 11

• A Constitution should be short and obscure.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Political, Constitution

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.88, Fireship Press

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• I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Party, Wings, Two

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• There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Issues, Political, Domain

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• To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

  Edmund Burke

  Love, Wise, Business

  Speech on American Taxation, 19 Apr. 1774

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

  Barbara Bush

  Powerful, Thinking, Political

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• I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

  George H. W. Bush

  Believe, Patriotic, Political

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• The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

  Fidel Castro

  Running, People, Nerd

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Political, Style, Democracy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Strength, Beach

  Hansard 4 June 1940, col. 796

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• Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

  Winston Churchill

  Business, Insperational, Games

  Winston Churchill (1973). “Liberalism and the Social Problem”, p.249, Library of Alexandria

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• Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

  Grover Cleveland

  Women, Long Ago, Civilization

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• A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

  e. e. cummings

  Men, Political, Arses

  1 ? 1 no. 10, l. 1 (1944)

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• Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Political, Lovely, President

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

  John W. Gardner

  Poverty, Talent, Poor

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.110, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Anger, Political, Angry

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• The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Hippie, Political, Liberty

  "Revolution for the Hell of It". Book by Abbie Hoffman, 1968.

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• I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

  Kin Hubbard

  Government, Long, Looks

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• A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Nature, Practice, Office

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• Never answer a question from a farmer.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Answers, Politician, Farmers

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• I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Ambition, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.345

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• I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life And Love, Government, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Humorous, Swimming

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Political, Presidential, Tasks

  State of the Union address to Congress, 4 Jan. 1965, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1965 vol. 1, p. 9

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• Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, White, House

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Spiritual, Taken, Rely Upon

  "The Revolution Betrayed" by Lenin Trotsky, (p. 236), 2006.

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