Politics Quotes - Page 13

• You know Lincoln's famous remark about "God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them?" Well, you are not going to get people's votes nowadays by calling 'em common. Lincoln might have said it, but I bet it was not until after he was elected.

  Will Rogers

  People, Ems, Calling

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• I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Serious, Easy

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• A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.

  Will Rogers

  Night, Thinking, President

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• Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.

  Will Rogers

  Character, Watches, Prohibition

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Times Like These, President

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• If this depression stays with us, the loser Tuesday is going to be the winner.

  Will Rogers

  Tuesday, Loser, Winner

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• Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".

  Will Rogers

  Promise, Done, Quiet

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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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• 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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• I do honestly believe the Republicans have reformed and want to do better. But whether they have done it in time to win the election is another thing. The old voter is getting so he wants to be saved before October every election year.

  Will Rogers

  Believe, Winning, Years

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• There wasn't any Republicans in Washington's day. No Republicans, no Boll Weevil, no income tax, no cover charge, no disarmament conference, no luncheon clubs, no stop lights, no static, no head winds. My Lord, living in those days, who wouldn't be great?

  Will Rogers

  Light, Wind, Income

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• When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

  Charles Olson

  Government, Nuisance, Cease

  Charles Olson (1979). “Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Law, People, Drug

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

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• It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

  Harry S. Truman

  Political, Ems, Tricks

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• The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

  Bill Vaughan

  Political, Vices, Doe

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• The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Party, Mean, Views

  "Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president".

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• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Freedom, 4th Of July

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Blue, Talking, White

  "European spring".

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• At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

  Harold MacMillan

  Home, Politician, Feels

  1958 Speech during the first visit of a British Prime Minister to Australia,17 Feb.

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• You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

  Malcolm X

  Hope, Greed, Political

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• Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

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