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.

Vladimir Lenin

This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look with sincere resentment upon all theoretical controversies, factional disagreements, broad political questions, plans for organising revolutionaries, etc.

Vladimir Lenin

Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

Walter Bagehot

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

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.

Nick Brown

It isn't my physical presence that bears down on the disease.

Mike Cammalleri

He goes to the net hard when he gets in front. It's like he sees red, you know? He bears down and makes sure the puck ends up in the back of the net.

Voltaire

Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

Robert Jordan

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

Walter Raleigh

No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

John Snow

The landmark corporate responsibility legislation enacted under his leadership ? and which bears his name ? shored up investors in the face of events which shook their confidence,

Charlotte Evans

The Care Bears teach timeless lessons. They're some of the favorite characters from the 1980s that many parents grew up with.

James Knightley

The (confidence) report will offer further support for the bond bears and help to push up rate hike expectations, as will news that existing home sales were stronger than expected.

Kenneth Clark

Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.