Famous quotes by Politicians

"The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed"

Erich Honecker, Politician

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right"

Lord Hailsham, Politician

"Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia"

W. Averell Harriman, Politician

"It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors"

Vic Snyder, Politician

"On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time... to put us on offense against terrorists"

Rudy Giuliani, Politician

"Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

"The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall"

Denis Healey, Politician

"Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors"

Thaddeus Stevens, Politician

"The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available"

Roy Romer, Politician

"A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one"

Sam Rayburn, Politician

"I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it, they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing"

Ian Smith, Politician

"Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate"

John Denham, Politician

"Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored"

Gary Hart, Politician

"We are all members of a single humanity, inside our hearts we all speak the same language, we all love our children and our parents, we all live in the same world"

Marc Forne Molne, Politician

"The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam"

John Cornyn, Politician

"We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world"

David Cameron, Politician

"The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me"

Curt Weldon, Politician

"An indictment is not a conviction"

Howard Coble, Politician

"I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict"

Frank B. Kellogg, Politician

"The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79"

Barbara Castle, Politician

"Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps"

Bill Lipinski, Politician

"All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business"

Eddie Bernice Johnson, Politician

"It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem"

Bob Barr, Politician

"Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust"

Gustav Heinemann, Politician

"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us"

John N. Mitchell, Politician

"Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican Party can grandly win"

Roscoe Conkling, Politician

"The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss"

Andrei A. Gromyko, Politician

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