Famous quotes by Politicians

Charles Rangel, Politician

"The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs"

Charles Rangel, Politician

"When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"The taxpayers deserve accountability"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy"

Paul Sweeney, Politician

"We may give advice, but not the sense to use it"

Kitty O'Neill Collins, Politician

"One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks"

Mo Udall, Politician

"The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes"

Richard Baker, Politician

"The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?"

Paul Sweeney, Politician

"Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items"

Paul Sweeney, Politician

"Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales"

Paul Sweeney, Politician

"The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician"

Mo Udall, Politician

"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself"

Kitty O'Neill Collins, Politician

"Business is more exciting than any game"

Kitty O'Neill Collins, Politician

"The more we exploit nature, the more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival"

Mo Udall, Politician

"That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids,' is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent"

Iain Duncan Smith, Politician

"In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"I sometimes joke, Paula: even paranoid people have enemies"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"Debate is the death of conversation"

Kitty O'Neill Collins, Politician

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