Famous quotes by Politicians

"Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"The cause of our difficulties in Southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"To be a statesman, you must first get elected"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"In the name of noble purposes, men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

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