Famous quotes by Politicians

"Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them"

Mo Udall, Politician

"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful"

Paul Sweeney, Politician

"The presidency is an independent office and the Irish people whom I appreciate so much and I take with such responsibility have given a very clear mandate on a very clear set of ideas to me, as the ninth president"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"There is this concept of politics as a dirty game"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"Politics is a blood sport"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best"

Tom Allen, Politician

"Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars"

George Galloway, Politician

"Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid"

George Galloway, Politician

"The big tyrants never face justice"

George Galloway, Politician

"By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger, and more secure America!"

Tom Allen, Politician

"Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies"

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers"

Shigeru Yoshida, Politician

"Are we going to go out and arrest and detain and deport 11 million people? Nobody would argue that that is what we are going to do, because we have never demonstrated the political will to do that, nor have we ever committed the requisite resources to do that"

Luis Gutierrez, Politician

"While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner"

Mike Pence, Politician

"It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. reform with teeth"

Mike Pence, Politician

"I've waffled before. I'll waffle again"

Howard Dean, Politician

"It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat"

Fiorello LaGuardia, Politician

"The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan"

Shigeru Yoshida, Politician

"And they do those jobs not because they want to take away anything from America, but because they want to give their skills, their sweat, their labor, for a better life and to help build a better America, just as those who came before them"

Luis Gutierrez, Politician

"Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

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