Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. Buckminster Fuller

Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

Joseph Sobran

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage ...

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

Oliver Herford

Diplomacy is living in state.

Oliver Goldsmith

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

Margaret Thatcher

There are no personal sympathies in politics.

Margaret Carlson

Here we will have possibly a bunch of tax dodgers deciding the election.

Paul Wellstone

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

Pope Francis

In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.

Phil Ochs

The glory that was Lincoln's never died when he was slain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Lil' Kim

I'm sayin', why spend mine when I can spend yours?

Phil Gramm

Sophia Loren is not a citizen.

Queen Victoria

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

Joseph Howe

Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good deal of our politics is physiological.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

Lee Greenwood

The flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.

Lewis Black

Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourettes'.

Karl Rove

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

Paul Douglas

To be a liberal one doesn't have to be a wastrel.

Jim Rogers

They wouldn't be politicians if they knew what they were doing.

Lou Reed

Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

Mao Zedong

The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth, if he does then he should be worshiped.

Jonah Goldberg

...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

Jon Stewart

Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very internet you invented.

James Madison

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

Emma Goldman

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Garry Kasparov

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm.