Famous quotes by Politicians

"Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city"

Harold Washington, Politician

"Our economy is creating jobs and giving businesses the conditions they need to invest and succeed"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy"

Carol Moseley Braun, Politician

"Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks"

Edward Koch, Politician

"We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs"

Carol Moseley Braun, Politician

"Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day"

Gifford Pinchot, Politician

"We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency"

Gifford Pinchot, Politician

"The earth and its resources belong, of right, to its people"

Gifford Pinchot, Politician

"The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare"

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Politician

"It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go"

Dolores Ibarruri, Politician

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees"

Dolores Ibarruri, Politician

"Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world"

Jack Layton, Politician

"I think it's the great thing about having kids. They have interests that you might not have, and it opens your horizons"

Robert Martin, Politician

"Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good"

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Politician

"According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"This is the city of dreamers, and time and again, it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

"Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

"The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"But if you don't like your current Rx coverage or don't have any coverage to begin with, you'll now have the choice to add this new affordable option to your current Medicare plan"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"Hope will never be silent"

Harvey Milk, Politician

"The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

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