Famous quotes by Politicians

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Beware the hobby that eats"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Beauty and folly are old companions"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Freedom rings where opinions clash"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on, but where life, in its real sense, is lost"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on"

John McCain, Politician

"War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality"

John McCain, Politician

"You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?"

Mario Cuomo, Politician

"We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses"

Mario Cuomo, Politician

"There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory"

Mario Cuomo, Politician

"The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us"

Mario Cuomo, Politician

"I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me"

Mario Cuomo, Politician

"I have no plans, and no plans to plan"

Mario Cuomo, Politician

"I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit"

Mario Cuomo, Politician

"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right"

Mario Cuomo, Politician

"Southern states in the Confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs"

Corrine Brown, Politician

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