Famous quotes by Politicians

"I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"I came into American politics, and into this political system, proud of politics and the way we make decisions"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers, proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women, the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"If you talk about preemption, you better know things rather than think things"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"To tell the truth is revolutionary"

Antonio Gramsci, Politician

"My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall, it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength"

Antonio Gramsci, Politician

"I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die"

Antonio Gramsci, Politician

"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas"

Shirley Chisholm, Politician

"You can theorise about the options you have, but in reality they are very specific"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?"

Marion Berry, Politician

"There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price"

Shirley Chisholm, Politician

"If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

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