Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

Richard M. Nixon

Where the hell is Chad?

Richard M. Nixon

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Richard Lamm

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

Robert Reich

You can't create a political movement out of pabulum.

Will Rogers

They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.

Will Rogers

I belong to no organized political body. I am a Democrat.

Will Rogers

You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Will Rogers

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

Zora Neale Hurston

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Michael Ignatieff

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

Richie Furay

I'm conservative in my thought. I'm conservative in my theology. I'm conservative in my politics.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.

Jeffrey Archer

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.

Sam Wyche

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football,

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

Jim Gillespie

We're not going to be taken seriously if we speak or we may not have a voice at all,

Lily Tomlin

Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.

Paolo Sorrentino

I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.

Paul McCartney

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

Elliott Erwitt

I am serious about not being serious

Elliott Erwitt

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.