Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel J. Boorstin

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.

Daniel Webster

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

Ambrose Bierce

PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.

Ambrose Bierce

DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.

Aneurin Bevan

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Thomas Sowell

Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.

Thomas Sowell

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

Robert Greenwald

It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Red Skelton

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

Ray Stevens

Osama, yo Mama didn't raise you right. When you were young, she must have wrapped your turban too tight.

Ray Davies

Feelin' guilty, feelin' scared, hidden cameras everywhere.

Ray Davies

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.

Thomas Jefferson

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

Thomas Jefferson

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

Thomas Jefferson

We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.

Thomas Jefferson

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

Tony Benn

When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

Tony Benn

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

Tony Benn

In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once

Tony Benn

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Rush Limbaugh

There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons... use them.

Rush Limbaugh

I was not wrong. I was just misinformed.

Ronald Reagan

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

Thomas Jefferson

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

Thomas Jefferson

He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and acquiesce when his opinion is freely overruled, will attain his object in the end.

Thomas Jefferson

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

Thomas Jefferson

The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

Victor Davis Hanson

A Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, George Soros, or Al Gore looks - no, acts - like he either came out of a hairstylist's salon or got off a Gulfstream.

Tacitus

Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.

Stanley Baldwin

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals-they always come in handy.

Silvio Berlusconi

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

Stevie Wonder

I'm glad I'm blind and can't see it.