Famous quotes by Politicians

"The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned"

Antonio Gramsci, Politician

"Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will"

Antonio Gramsci, Politician

"How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?"

Boyle Roche, Politician

"Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired"

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less"

John Major, Politician

"They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia"

George C. Wallace, Politician

"It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward"

Dolores Ibarruri, Politician

"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it"

Josephus Daniels, Politician

"Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together"

Harold Washington, Politician

"In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks"

Chris Patten, Politician

"America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention"

Tom Harkin, Politician

"For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country"

Reginald Maudling, Politician

"The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom"

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Politician

"Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet"

Mathieu Kerekou, Politician

"Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information"

Roger Wicker, Politician

"The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage deserve a raise"

Jim Clyburn, Politician

"We need to move away from a throwaway culture and towards a circular economy that values reuse and recycling over waste and consumption"

Tom McMillan, Politician

"Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women"

Stephen Lewis, Politician

"Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition"

Robert M. La Follette, Politician

"The great recipe for success is to work and always work"

Leon Gambetta, Politician

"Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?"

John Lewis, Politician

"Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down"

Francine Busby, Politician

"If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started"

Michael D. Barnes, Politician

"As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying"

Chris Van Hollen, Politician

"I'm a fighter, not a quitter"

Peter Mandelson, Politician

"I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress"

William Whipple, Politician

"To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections"

Peter Schuyler, Politician

"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink"

Earl Long, Politician

"I'm in favor of immigration, but we also need rules"

Gary Ackerman, Politician

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