Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Newman

They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.

Ralph Peters

A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who.

John W. Gardner

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Theodore Parker

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Theodore Roosevelt

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

Theodore Roosevelt

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

Theodore Roosevelt

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Kin Hubbard

Politics makes strange post-masters.

Max Beerbohm

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

Philip Slater

The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manufacturers) who are responsible for the death, mutilation or general wretchedness of thousands or millions are rewarded with fame, riches and prizes... If you are going to rob, rob big; if you're going to kill, kill big.

Laura Ingraham

...one is reminded that [John Kerry, D-MA] really just a better-looking Ted Kennedy, a richer Michael Dukakis.

John Perry Barlow

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

Penn Jillette

Fear is the politicians dance partner.

Marie Antoinette

In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.

Mark Levin

The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.

Marilyn Manson

Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.

Bill Kurtis

Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.

David Blunkett

Politics is only worthwhile if you are doing what you believe, regardless of the slings and arrows.

P. J. O'Rourke

Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

Rory Bremner

Politics in Scotland is far too important to be taken seriously.

Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements.

Elliott Abrams

Four years is a long time in politics.

Lena Headey

If I was into politics, I would be rich.

Jim Hightower

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

Jesse Jackson

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jeff Flake

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

Hillary Clinton

I'm going to be pitching Andy Cohen on a new show for Bravo. We can call it 'Project Pantsuit.'

Ernst Haeckel

Politics is applied biology.

Flannery O'Connor

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

Francis Bacon

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

George Washington

It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.

George Washington

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.

George W. Bush

If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.