Famous quotes by Politicians

"Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"Since creation of the E.U., a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history"

John Bruton, Politician

"U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined"

John Bruton, Politician

"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it"

John Gilmour, Politician

"Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits are essentially a temperate people"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed class of society, are the same in all countries"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present"

Kitty O'Neill Collins, Politician

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