Famous quotes by Politicians

"First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl"

Marion Berry, Politician

"Today I want to send a message of optismism to all Greeks. Our road, our path, will be more stabilised. Our country will be in a better situation. We will be stronger"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarisation and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"I never thought of politics as a profession"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"Already people are saying we do need a change"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses"

Shirley Chisholm, Politician

"Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... Its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission"

Shirley Chisholm, Politician

"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else"

Shirley Chisholm, Politician

"I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis, no less"

Marion Berry, Politician

"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt"

Shirley Chisholm, Politician

"The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice"

Marion Berry, Politician

"I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600s. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican"

Marion Berry, Politician

"We are a country with great potential. We have the political will to make deep changes in a just and equitable way, to put our country back on a development path, to meet the challenges of a new world"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"People have criticised me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are"

Marion Berry, Politician

"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk"

Marion Berry, Politician

"The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves"

Shirley Chisholm, Politician

"Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"It is no secret that our tax code is drastically outdated and burdensome to all Americans. Fortunately, more and more people are aware daily of the inequities that arise from things such as the estate tax, and it has come to the forefront of Congress' agenda"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

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