Famous quotes by Politicians

"We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"One man's transparency is another's humiliation"

Gerry Adams, Politician

"Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free"

Bill Richardson, Politician

"It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot or do not enforce the ones we have"

Blanche Lincoln, Politician

"We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices"

Donna Brazile, Politician

"Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois"

Dick Durbin, Politician

"Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice"

Salmon P. Chase, Politician

"The longer the title, the less important the job"

George McGovern, Politician

"The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts"

William Weld, Politician

"We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong"

Joe Lieberman, Politician

"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability"

Kathleen Casey, Politician

"Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future"

Bob Riley, Politician

"It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens"

Emanuel Celler, Politician

"Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed"

Blanche Lincoln, Politician

"Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry"

Rick Perry, Politician

"But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society"

Rick Perry, Politician

"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power"

Charles Simmons, Politician

"When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget"

Henry F. Ashurst, Politician

"Remember the Tea Party movement didn't get started in September of 2008 when the bank bailout was passed. It really began on Feb. 19th, 2009 when a television commentator named Rick Santelli stood up and said what the hell are we doing bailing out people who couldn't afford a mortgage by taking money from people like me who are prudent?"

Karl Rove, Politician

"I think everyday people on the street, who have never been affiliated with the Tea Party movement, are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have"

Kristi Noem, Politician

"No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons"

Jerry Weller, Politician

"More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty"

Jerry Weller, Politician

"In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment"

Dennis Cardoza, Politician

"You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison"

Craig L. Thomas, Politician

"No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle"

Henry F. Ashurst, Politician

"We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum"

Lisa Murkowski, Politician

"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness"

Stewart Udall, Politician

"Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance"

Lisa Murkowski, Politician

"The French Revolution taught us the rights of man"

Thomas Sankara, Politician

"I can hear the roar of women's silence"

Thomas Sankara, Politician

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