A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.
Bella Abzug
I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.
Bella Abzug
I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.
Bella Abzug
Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of
consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.
Bella Abzug
Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't
make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.
Bella Abzug
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
Bella Abzug
We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the
institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.
Bella Abzug
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
Dean Acheson
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Dean Acheson
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
Dean Acheson
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural
equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.
John Quincy Adams
The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the
United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.
John Quincy Adams
The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.
John Quincy Adams
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one
indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
John Quincy Adams
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop
If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
KTVI-TV interview on August 19, 2012.
Todd Akin
Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on a dunghill.
Richard Aldington
Let's give a welcome to Macaca here.
George Allen
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Jack Anderson
There are three kinds of lie: a small lie, a big lie and politics.
Time Magazine
Anonymous
There are three statements that you should never believe: (1) A cheque is in the post
; (2) I am from the
Government and I am here to help you
; (3) Of course, darling, I will still respect you in the morning.
Cassell's Humorous Quotations
Anonymous
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Francis Bacon
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Essays: Of Atheism
Francis Bacon
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Francis Bacon
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Essays: Of Revenge
Francis Bacon
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
Acorns were good until bread was found.
Francis Bacon
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.
Francis Bacon
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Francis Bacon
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis Bacon
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Proposition Touching Amendment of Laws
Francis Bacon
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon
By indignities men come to dignities.
Francis Bacon
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.
Francis Bacon
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Francis Bacon
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Francis Bacon
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis Bacon
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis Bacon
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
Francis Bacon
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Francis Bacon
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis Bacon
God's first creature, which was light.
Francis Bacon
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Francis Bacon
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both;
but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Francis Bacon
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Francis Bacon
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Apothegms
Francis Bacon
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis Bacon
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis Bacon
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Francis Bacon
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
The Advancement of Learning
Francis Bacon
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Francis Bacon
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Essays: Of Revenge
Francis Bacon
It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon
It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.
Francis Bacon
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Francis Bacon
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Francis Bacon
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
Francis Bacon
It is natural to die as to be born.
Francis Bacon
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more
advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis Bacon
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon
Knowledge itself is power.
Meditationes Sacrae (Sacred Meditations)
Francis Bacon
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Francis Bacon
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
Francis Bacon
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies
themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis Bacon
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Novum Organum
Francis Bacon
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis Bacon
No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and
certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.
Francis Bacon
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Francis Bacon
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the
character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis Bacon
Opportunity makes a thief.
Francis Bacon
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Francis Bacon
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Francis Bacon
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Essays: Of Adversity
Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Essays: Of Studies
Francis Bacon
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
Francis Bacon
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis Bacon
Science is but an image of the truth.
Francis Bacon
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis Bacon
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Essays: Of Studies
Francis Bacon
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Francis Bacon
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Francis Bacon
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis Bacon
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Francis Bacon
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Francis Bacon
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Francis Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.
Francis Bacon
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis Bacon
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Francis Bacon
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Francis Bacon
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Francis Bacon
The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because
the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.
Francis Bacon
The remedy is worse than the disease.
Essays: Of Seditions and Troubles
Francis Bacon
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
Francis Bacon
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light
together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis Bacon
The worst men often give the best advice.
Francis Bacon
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Essays: Of Friendship
Francis Bacon
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Francis Bacon
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest
man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what
he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Francis Bacon
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there
is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
Francis Bacon
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
The Advancement of Learning
Francis Bacon
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Francis Bacon
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Francis Bacon
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis Bacon
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Novum Organum
Francis Bacon
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Francis Bacon
We are much beholden to Machiavel and
others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Francis Bacon
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Francis Bacon
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Francis Bacon
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis Bacon
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Essays: Of Marriage and Single Life
Francis Bacon
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Francis Bacon
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
Stanley Baldwin
A statesman must be a patriot, but he must also be a realist.
Stanley Baldwin
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six
months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
Stanley Baldwin
Democracy is a system of government which makes it possible for people to get rid of the government and try another without violence.
Often cited in discussions about democratic governance, though the exact source is debated.
Stanley Baldwin
Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their employees there would have been no unions.
Stanley Baldwin
I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.
Stanley Baldwin
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
Stanley Baldwin
I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.
From a 1931 speech defending his pragmatic approach to the Indian independence movement.
Stanley Baldwin
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
Stanley Baldwin
Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of
England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.
Stanley Baldwin
Power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
From a 1931 speech criticizing press barons Beaverbrook and Rothermere. Baldwin attributed the phrase to his
cousin Rudyard Kipling.
Stanley Baldwin
Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone.
Stanley Baldwin
The bomber will always get through.
From a 1932 speech on disarmament, highlighting the vulnerability of civilians to air attacks.
Stanley Baldwin
The greatest crime to our own people is to be afraid to tell the truth.
Stanley Baldwin
The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
From a 1927 speech critiquing pretentious intellectualism.
Stanley Baldwin
The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.
Stanley Baldwin
The real need of the day is moral and spiritual rearmament. God's Living
Spirit can transcend conflicting political systems, can reconcile order and freedom.
Stanley Baldwin
War would end if the dead could return.
Stanley Baldwin
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
Stanley Baldwin
Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
Bernard Baruch
All war represents is a failure of diplomacy.
Tony Benn
Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife
said why don't you say you're giving up to devote more time to politics?
. And it is what I have done.
Tony Benn
Under current law, on January 1st, 2013, there is going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.
House Committee on Financial Services on February 29, 2012.
Ben Bernanke
Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
Aneurin Bevan
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Aneurin Bevan
Will last as long as there are folk left with the faith to fight for it.
Referring to the National Health Service (NHS).
Aneurin Bevan
A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program represents the best and most
sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.
Joe Biden
A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
Joe Biden
Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.
Joe Biden
Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar
we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?
Joe Biden
America doesn't have health insurance.
Joe Biden
America's commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred
obligation in our view - a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time.
Joe Biden
America's experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic
policy or developing the best educated curricula. It's about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.
Joe Biden
Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: War,
by Sebastian Junger.
Joe Biden
As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.
Joe Biden
Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate
that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I've been around. He's fresh, he's new, he's insightful.
Joe Biden
Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-
tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.
Joe Biden
Corruption is just another form of tyranny.
Joe Biden
Don't compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.
A frequent refrain contrasting himself with opponents,
particularly Donald Trump.
Joe Biden
Don't hold against me that I don't own - that I don't own a single stock or bond. Don't hold it - I have no savings accounts.
Joe Biden
Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.
Joe Biden
During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
Joe Biden
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras have all agreed to send additional consular officers from Guatemala, from Honduras, from El Salvador, send
them to the U.S. border so that we can more quickly and humanely identify unaccompanied children and process their individual removal.
Joe Biden
Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're
proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100
days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains.
Joe Biden
Except for the title father,
there is no title, including vice president,
that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.
Joe Biden
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
Joe Biden
Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.
Joe Biden
Folks, I can tell you I know we're making progress when I look at the past.
Characteristic phrasing emphasizing progress from a difficult past.
Joe Biden
Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
Joe Biden
Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep
your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.
Joe Biden
For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a
government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.
Joe Biden
For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
Reflecting his theme of unity and community.
Joe Biden
Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.
Joe Biden
Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let
their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.
Joe Biden
Global energy security is a vital part of America's national security.
Joe Biden
Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more
qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let's get that straight. She's a truly close personal friend. She
is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She's easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.
Joe Biden
I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.
Joe Biden
I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government
intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.
Joe Biden
I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.
Joe Biden
I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.
Joe Biden
I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.
Joe Biden
I don't say very much I don't really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent
with Joe Biden.
Joe Biden
I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.
Joe Biden
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
Joe Biden
I guess every single word I've ever said is going to be dissected now.
Joe Biden
I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.
Joe Biden
I have an expression I use as I've gone around the world through my career: You never tell another man
or woman what's in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.
Joe Biden
I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.
Joe Biden
I have Parents
magazine in my home.
Joe Biden
I know I'm not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars.
Joe Biden
I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.
Joe Biden
I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always been a growing middle class.
Joe Biden
I love that Cadillac ATS!
Joe Biden
I ran for the Senate six times. And one of the things I know about Senate races off years and on races, and on years, the same as
governor's races, is it's all local. It all gets down to what the specific issues in that - in that district or that state is.
Joe Biden
I used to say to my late wife, I have great faith in the American people.
Joe Biden
I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.
Joe Biden
I view the vice presidency as a partnership.
Describing his relationship with President Obama.
Joe Biden
I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.
Joe Biden
I was not an activist.
Joe Biden
I'm not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that's not me.
Joe Biden
I've been really, really fortunate.
Joe Biden
I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace of Aphrodite,
the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.
Joe Biden
I've known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.
Joe Biden
If I don't run for president, we'll all be OK.
Joe Biden
If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.
2009 remark on swine flu response, later often referenced or mischaracterized.
Joe Biden
If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't Black.
In an interview with The Breakfast Club
radio program, May 22, 2020.
Joe Biden
If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn't
be hunting. If you can't get the deer in 3 shots, you shouldn't be hunting. You are an embarrassment.
Joe Biden
If you’re in a confined aircraft and you’re not wearing a mask, you should probably be wearing a mask—it doesn't hurt.
During a July 21, 2022 speech in Wilmington, Massachusetts.
Joe Biden
If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.
Joe Biden
In my heart, I'm confident I could make a good president.
Joe Biden
In Romania, American forces have found a devoted NATO ally.
Joe Biden
In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.
Joe Biden
In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.
Joe Biden
In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is
still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.
Joe Biden
In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
Joe Biden
Income inequity has to be addressed.
Joe Biden
Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.
Joe Biden
ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United
States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening.
Joe Biden
Isn't it a bitch? I mean, ... this vice president thing?
Response to a student body vice president at Harvard College, Oct. 2, 2014.
Joe Biden
It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
Joe Biden
It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a
great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.
Joe Biden
It's never, ever a good bet to bet against America.
A core belief and frequent theme in his speeches.
Joe Biden
It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.
Joe Biden
It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.
Joe Biden
Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?
Joe Biden
Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I've met with, and I've met them all: It's
never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.
Joe Biden
Let's build back better.
Joe Biden
Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.
Joe Biden
Life is a matter of really tough choices.
Joe Biden
Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild
it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.
Joe Biden
Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the
world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
Joe Biden
Malarkey!
His signature term for calling out nonsense or falsehoods.
Joe Biden
Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
Joe Biden
My dad always said, Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.
Joe Biden
My dad used to have an expression - It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts
both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.
Joe Biden
My dad used to have an expression. He'd say, Joey, a job is about a lot more than a
paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.
Frequently cited to emphasize the value of work.
Joe Biden
No fundamental right is safe in this country if the right to vote is undermined.
Emphasizing the importance of voting rights.
Joe Biden
No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society... begins to rise up and demand change.
Joe Biden
No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.
Joe Biden
No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor's country.
Joe Biden
No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.
Joe Biden
No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria.
And there's no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.
Joe Biden
No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.
Joe Biden
No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's
plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.
Joe Biden
Now, people when I say that look at me and say, What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we
have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?
. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.
Joe Biden
Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.
Joe Biden
Obama
and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.
Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have to bear
the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That's not a tax raise. That's called fairness where I come from.
Joe Biden
On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy
named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.
Joe Biden
One of the things I've never been accused of is not caring about people.
Joe Biden
Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.
Joe Biden
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
Joe Biden
People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it's about a lot more than being able to make money.
Joe Biden
People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.
Joe Biden
Poor kids are just as bright, just as talented, as white kids.
Remarks made to Asian and Latino Coalition, Des Moines, Iowa, August 8, 2019.
Joe Biden
Prime Minister Netanyahu has, as Minister Livni knows, has
been my friend for over 30 years. We drive each other crazy. But he has truly been a personal friend for well over 30 years. He acknowledged this.
Joe Biden
Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine's economy.
Joe Biden
Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.
Joe Biden
Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still
have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.
Joe Biden
Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.
Joe Biden
Romania can be a linchpin in delivering gas to its neighbors and even become an energy exporter for its neighbors across Central and Eastern Europe.
Joe Biden
Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.
Joe Biden
Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.
A well-known phrase he often uses to discuss priorities.
Joe Biden
The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example
of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.
Joe Biden
The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.
Joe Biden
The American people have not become heartless.
Joe Biden
The American people have the right to know if their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook.
Paraphrasing/contrasting Nixon's
famous line, used during the 2020 campaign.
Joe Biden
The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days,
literally can't breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.
Joe Biden
The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
Joe Biden
The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.
Joe Biden
The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.
Joe Biden
The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
Joe Biden
The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.
Joe Biden
The only thing I know is I ain't changing my brand. I know what I believe. I'm confident in what I
know. And I'm gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don't like it, I understand.
Joe Biden
The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.
Joe Biden
The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's
going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.
Joe Biden
The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.
Joe Biden
The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors
that - children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.
Joe Biden
The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the
balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
Joe Biden
There is no inherent power in the office of the vice presidency. Zero. None. It's all a reflection of your relationship
with the president. I mean, Kennedy
never let Johnson in the office.
Joe Biden
There used to be an old bad joke. I hope it's not so much a good joke anymore. Everybody's from Scranton; no one's in Scranton.
Joe Biden
There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
Joe Biden
There's no political point worth my son's life.
Joe Biden
There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows
me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.
Joe Biden
There's only one person in this race who will be there, who's always been there for you, and
that's Hillary Clinton's life story.
Joe Biden
This is a big fucking deal!
Whispered to President Obama at the signing
of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, caught on hot mic - arguably his most famous utterance, though not an official quote.
Joe Biden
This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
Joe Biden
Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.
Joe Biden
Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.
Joe Biden
We Americans think, in every country in transition, there's
a Thomas Jefferson hiding
behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.
Joe Biden
We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it.
A common patriotic refrain.
Joe Biden
We choose hope over fear. We choose unity over division. We choose light over darkness.
A central theme of his 2020 campaign and presidency.
Joe Biden
We didn't crumble after 9/11. We didn't falter after the Boston Marathon. But we're
America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.
Joe Biden
We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.
Joe Biden
We have to be remembered for what's been done.
Joe Biden
We must end this uncivil war.
From his 2021 Inaugural Address, calling for unity.
Joe Biden
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
Joe Biden
We're close friends - the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There's
absolutely no daylight - none - between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel's security.
Joe Biden
We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
Joe Biden
Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!
Joe Biden
Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.
Joe Biden
What on God's green Earth are we doing?
Expressing exasperation or disbelief, often about gun violence or political obstruction.
Joe Biden
When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.
Joe Biden
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got
on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, Look, here's what happened.
Joe Biden
When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the
authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.
Joe Biden
When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast
majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been lost
or stolen.
Joe Biden
You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.
Joe Biden
You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that
the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.
Joe Biden
You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an
economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.
Joe Biden
You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it's open season on anybody who stutters.
Joe Biden
You should be attacking the carbon emissions, period, and whether it's
cap-and-trade or carbon tax or whatever, that's the realm in which we should be playing.
Joe Biden
You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General
Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!
Joe Biden
You're a lying dog-faced pony soldier.
Remark made to a student at a campaign event, Hampton, New Hampshire, February 9, 2020.
Joe Biden
You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.
Joe Biden
You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.
Joe Biden
You've all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means
to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character - one of the finest presidents we have ever had.
Joe Biden
You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
Joe Biden
I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between
different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.
Otto von Bismarck
Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto von Bismarck
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair
If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no
use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.
Edward Wilmot Blyden
Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.
James Boren
I have what it takes to take what you've got.
James Boren
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
James Boren
What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
Horatio Bottomley
I know that upon 4th of July, our 4th of July orators talk of Liberty, while three million of their own country men are groaning in abject Slavery. This
is called the land of the free and the home of the brave
; it is called the asylum of the oppressed
; and some have been foolish enough to call
it the Cradle of Liberty.
If it is the cradle of liberty,
they have rocked the child to death. It is dead long since, and yet we talk about
democracy and republicanism, while one-sixth of our countrymen are clanking their chains upon the very soil which our fathers moistened with their blood.
William Wells Brown
My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.
Op-ed from the New York Times on Monday, August 15, 2011.
Warren Buffett
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Attributed.
Edmund Burke
Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
Globalization has much potential. It could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable
problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.
Sharan Burrow
Who knows, somewhere out there in the audience may even be someone who will one day follow in
my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well.
Barbara Bush
All skills begin with the basics of reading and math, which are supposed to be learned in the early
grades of our schools. Yet for too long, for too many children, those skills were never mastered.
George W. Bush
Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.
To FEMA director Michael Brown, who resigned 10 days later amid criticism over his handling of the Hurricane Katrina debacle.
George W. Bush
I really am not the kind of guy that sits here and says, Oh gosh, I'm worried about my legacy.
Quote from an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes on January 14, 2007.
George W. Bush
I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for
Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense.
In Washington, D.C.
George W. Bush
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundations of America.
George W. Bush
There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -
that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.
In Nashville, Tennessee.
George W. Bush
These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve.
George W. Bush
They misunderestimated me.
In Bentonville, Arkansas.
George W. Bush
Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country.
In Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
George W. Bush
You're working hard to put food on your family.
In Greater Nashua, New Hampshire.
George W. Bush
By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.
Jeb Bush
Probably nothing.
Jeb Bush
Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.
James F. Byrnes
When they ask me, Who is the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan?
I'm going to say, You know, I don't know. Do you know?
Christian Broadcasting Network interview on October 7, 2011.
Herman Cain
And finds, with keen discriminating sight,
Black's not so black; - nor white so very white.
George Canning
Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet - perhaps may turn his blow!
But of all plagues, Good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, Oh, save me from the candid friend!
George Canning
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll
There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those
who pay bribes are often depicted as innocent victims ... The reality is that both parties conspire to defraud the public.
Lynda Chalker
I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge.
WMAZ-TV television interview on November 21, 2012.
Saxby Chambliss
I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.
Fox News interview about Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012.
Chris Christie
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Winston Churchill
Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.
Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
I would like to have been examined in history, poetry and writing essays. The examiners, on the other hand, were partial to Latin and
mathematics. And their will prevailed ... I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know.
Winston Churchill
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations ... The quotations when engraved upon
the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
Winston Churchill
Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war.
*
*Attribution questionable.
Winston Churchill
Odd things animals. All dogs look up at you. All cats look down at you. Only a pig looks at you as an equal.
Winston Churchill
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Winston Churchill
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
*
*Attribution questionable.
Winston Churchill
Victory has a hundred fathers, but no one wants to recognise defeat as his own.
Galeazzo Ciano
Everything you reprove in another, you must carefully avoid in yourself.
Cicero
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
The sinews of war: unlimited money.
Cicero
I responded in what I thought was the most truthful or least untruthful manner, by saying, No.
Describing his Senate committee hearing testimony denying the NSA collects data on Americans on June 8, 2013.
James Clapper
As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.
Bill Clinton
Great nations need organizing principles, and Don't do stupid stuff
is not an organizing principle.
Atlantic Online interview, August 10, 2014.
Hillary Clinton
I don't think they're piling on because I'm a woman. I think they're piling on because I'm winning.
In response to intensifying criticism for the Democratic presidential nomination on November 2, 2007.
Hillary Clinton
In every era, society must strike the right balance between the freedom businesses need to
compete for a market share and to make profits and the preservation of family and community values.
Hillary Clinton
(In politics) you need both a public and a private position.
Speech to National Multi-Housing Council released by WikiLeaks, October 7, 2016.
Hillary Clinton
Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of
time, and I think a marriage is as a marriage always has been, between a man and a woman.
Hillary Clinton
There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take
responsibility for their own lives. There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.
Hillary Clinton
Too many companies, especially large ones, are driven more and more narrowly by the need to ensure that investors get good
quarterly returns and to justify executives' high salaries. Too often, this means that they view most employees as costs.
Hillary Clinton
We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.
ABC News interview, June 9, 2014.
Hillary Clinton
What, like with a cloth or something?
Response to a reporter's questions about whether she wiped her server, North Las Vegas, Nevada, August 18, 2015.
Hillary Clinton
You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.
Remarks at a fundraiser, New York, September 9, 2016.
Hillary Clinton
Women do two thirds of the world's work ... Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and
own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
Barber Conable
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Leonard Courtney
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Norman Cousins
When we're dancing with the angels, the question will be asked: In 2019, what did we do to make
sure we kept our democracy intact? Did we stand on the sidelines and say nothing? Did we play games?
Closing statement at public hearing of Michael Cohen before House of Representatives Oversight Committee, February 27, 2019.
Elijah Cummings
When the private sector gains control over sociological function, then certainly government has failed.
Robert J. Dainard
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken
on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
Angela Davis
Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
Jefferson Davis
If a lady says No, she means Perhaps; if she says Perhaps, she means Yes; if she says Yes, she is no Lady. If
a diplomat says Yes, he means Perhaps; if he says Perhaps, he means No; if he says No, he is no Diplomat.
Bertrand Dawson
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
Charles de Gaulle
I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets ... If it had not
been for the men and women who, in the past, have had the moral courage to go to jail, we would still be in the jungles.
Eugene V. Debs
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Stephen Decatur
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Bernadette Devlin
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work.
Benjamin Disraeli
Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.
Benjamin Disraeli
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Yes, I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole.
Comment made after being appointed prime minister.
Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
A Congresswoman must look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, speak on any given subject with authority and most of all work like a dog.
Florence P. Dwyer
Passage of a meaningful equal pay bill will end a long and unfortunate pattern of discrimination against women and it will place the Federal
Government in the same desirable position as the 20 states which have enacted equal pay laws. It will help all areas of the economy, men as well
as women, by stabilizing wage rates, increasing job security, and discouraging the replacement of men with women at lower rates of pay.
Florence P. Dwyer
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
Max Eastman
Nothing could be more calamitous than for patriotism to become the established religion of this country.
The Religion of Patriotism
Max Eastman
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
Max Eastman
Socialism is no mean religion. But it is not a religion that binds or blesses the rich and powerful, and so it could hardly
become established in a country like ours. For an established religion we needed something a little more like God... a little
vaguer and more elegant and better adapted to bind in among other motives the economic self-interest of those who rule. We
needed something that would give us the same emotional crystallization without greatly disturbing the profits on capital.
Max Eastman
The words socialist and communist are changing their meaning just as the word Christian did. Just as heretics were burned by thousands in the name
of the love of the neighbour, so peasants have been starved by millions in the name of the workers' and peasants' republic. The crude animal egoisms of
men and classes of men thus grab ideas and use them, not as heroic lights to action, but as blinds to hide inaction or actions that are too base.
Max Eastman
What is the secret ballot
when only one party can run candidates for office, and that the party in power? What is free press and
assemblage
when no man can form, advocate, or support the platform of any but the gang in power, and when ten to twenty thousand of those
who have done so are in jail or exile while you talk about it? What is the whole talk under these conditions about how we
are going to
give the Russian people
the most democratic constitution on earth? Is there any term in the language to describe it except apple-sauce?
The End of Socialism in Russia
Max Eastman
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are
far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Albert Einstein
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final
sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought,
by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that
goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too!
Elizabeth I
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
Zhou Enlai
I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.
Iowa Senatorial candidate Joni Ernst, campaign advertisement quoted in National Journal, March 25, 2014.
Joni Ernst
I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.
Nigel Farage
You hit a reset button for the fall campaign; everything changes. It's almost
like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and we start all over again.
CNN interview on March 21, 2012.
Eric Fehrnstrom
Administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative
official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!
Mary Parker Follett
Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. Have I tried it? Um, probably in one of my drunken stupors.
Remarks to reporters on November 5, 2013.
Rob Ford
Whatever happens in government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.
Charles Frankel
A little neglect may breed mischief ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost.
Benjamin Franklin
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin
God heals and the doctor takes the fees.
Benjamin Franklin
He that falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin
If you would not be forgotten
As soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worth reading,
Or do things worth the writing.
Benjamin Franklin
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
Remember that time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
To sit back and say, Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,
is giving up.
Michael Franti
The real problem for any government coming to power is to control the civil servants. They will all
explain why it is quite impossible to do things other than the way they are currently done.
Milton Friedman
A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.
John Galbraith
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for
achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
John Galbraith
Change is inevitable, but it is in us to control its content and directions.
Indira Gandhi
It is possible for a business venture to be an island of efficiency in a sea of sloth.
Indira Gandhi
Opportunities are not offered; they must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and tenacity, determination and courage.
Indira Gandhi
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business. What is
true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
Mahatma Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge
without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells.
Mahatma Gandhi
You should be the change that you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Four spectres haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are
going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.
David Lloyd George
I often think it's comical
How Nature always does contrive
That every boy and every gal
That's born into the world alive
Is either a little Liberal
Or else a little Conservative!
W. S. Gilbert
My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.
Statement dictated to granddaughter Clara Spera, September, 2020.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
[The] city of New York and the United States of America is much stronger than any group of barbaric terrorists, that our
democracy, that our rule of law, that our strength and our willingness to defend ourselves will ultimately prevail.
Rudy Giuliani
You can't fight against the future. Time is on our side.
William Gladstone
Has anyone ever noticed that we live in the only country in the world where all the poor people are fat?
Phil Gramm
We have sort of become a nation of whiners.
The Washington Times on July 10, 2008.
Phil Gramm
Globalization is an opportunity. Well managed, it will help drive forward efforts to build
prosperity and eliminate poverty. Badly managed it will increase the divide between rich and poor.
Peter Hain
The Prime Minister's advice to Her Majesty was unlawful, void and of no effect.
Judgment in case of R (Miller) v. The Prime Minister, September 24, 2019.
Brenda Hale
If you want to push something ... you're accused of being aggressive, and that's not supposed to
be a good thing for a woman. If you get upset and show it, you're accused of being emotional.
Mary Harney
We did it, Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States.
In a phone call with Joe Biden,
U.S. president-elect, after their victory in the 2022 presidential election was projected on November 7, 2022.
Kamala Harris
Three things happen when you get to my age. First your memory starts to go ... and I have forgotten the other two.
Denis Healey
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry
Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in
a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade
Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments' ability to protect the rights of their own people.
Noreena Hertz
The market has no morality.
Michael Heseltine
Others appear frozen in the headlights - aware of the likely impact, yet paralysed by the fear of major transformations.
Patricia Hewitt
There's no such thing as interacting in society without it being a political act, the most fearsome of which is war. But all other
acts are political, too. Even if you say, I don't believe in politics
, you've just acted. You've acted for the status quo.
Abbie Hoffman
In the not too distant future the notion of the annual pay increase must become as exceptional as it was novel a generation ago.
Geoffrey Howe
Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a
philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few.
David Hume
At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and
justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.
Aldous Huxley
Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.
Andrew Jackson
One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that operates with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as
Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
Andrew Jackson
We've got to stop being the stupid party. It's time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults.
Republican National Committee on January 24, 2013.
Bobby Jindal
I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when
the Americans won't even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the International Criminal Court.
Boris Johnson
I would rather be dead in a ditch than ask the European Union for a delay in Brexit.
Remarks made at a police training center in Wakefield, England, September 5, 2019.
Boris Johnson
We have a great new Brexit deal that takes back control.
Announcing a revised agreement with the European Union on October 17, 2022.
Boris Johnson
If two men agree on everything, you can be sure one of them is doing the thinking.
Lyndon B. Johnson
If we are to be more prosperous we need more millionaires and more bankrupts.
Keith Joseph
Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a
single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.
Franz Kafka
Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.
Kenneth Keating
Leadership is not about being nice. It's about being right and being strong.
Paul Keating
Under the hypnosis of war hysteria, with a pusillanimous Congress rubber-stamping every whim of the White House, we passed the withholding tax.
Vivien Kellems
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
Civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.
John F. Kennedy
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
Poetry is the ultimate democracy.
Brendan Kennelly
I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.
On voting for a war appropriations bill for Iraq and Afghanistan.
John Kerry
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Victor Kiam
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they
will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr.
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry Kissinger
I have been accused of allegedly giving up my free-market principles in supporting some of Donald Trump's proposed policies.
Larry Kudlow
Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime
ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.
Dalai Lama
What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
William Lamb
I've always favoured proposition over opposition.
Jack Layton
I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that
we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
Barbara Lee
I once said cynically of a politician, He'll double-cross that bridge when he comes to it.
Oscar Levant
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all
of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who
molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute.
Abraham Lincoln
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Walter Lippmann
He was the consummate politician. He didn't lie, neither did he tell the truth.
John Lundberg
Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
John Major
I would have been a success in anything. But I have chosen an activity that was socially useful and that aspect gives me extra satisfaction.
Robert Maxwell
Ordinary people may not understand the meaning of democracy but they've a passionate regard for fair play.
Robert Maxwell
The time has now definitely come when every intelligent individual must learn
to think globally, beyond the horizon of a narrow nationalist point of view.
Robert Maxwell
The fundamentals of America's economy are strong.
Bloomberg TV on April 17, 2008.
John McCain
I dress like a Republican so I can talk like an Anarchist.
Colman McCarthy
I will never lie to you. You have my word on that.
At her first press briefing, May 1, 2020.
Kayleigh McEnany
The science should not stand in the way of this.
Referring to school reopenings in a news briefing, July 16, 2020.
Kayleigh McEnany
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Golda Meir
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamppost.
H. L. Mencken
If the parties will at my hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the
one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
Thomas More
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
John Morley
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.
Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
Dwight Morrow
If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.
Remarks made at the Department of Justice, May 29, 2019.
Robert Mueller
And one thing I'd like to point out is that the system worked.
Janet Napolitano
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anaïs Nin
The press is the enemy.
Richard Nixon
I'm not a witch.
Opening line to a 30-second television political advertisement.
Christine O'Donnell
You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?
Delaware senatorial debate on October 19, 2010.
Christine O'Donnell
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
P. J. O'Rourke
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece
of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, Huh. It works. It makes sense.
Barack Obama
Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack
Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
Barack Obama
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and
share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama
Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.
Barack Obama
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
Barack Obama
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
Barack Obama
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself.
Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax
increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Barack Obama
I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
Barack Obama
I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
Barack Obama
I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change
direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.
Barack Obama
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
Barack Obama
I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
Barack Obama
I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
Barack Obama
I inhaled, that was the point.
Barack Obama
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our
people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Barack Obama
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate
floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
Barack Obama
I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.
Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
Barack Obama
I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an
economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Barack Obama
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all
about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
Barack Obama
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists
- to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher
somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed
you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that.
Campaign appearance in Roanoke, Virginia on July 13, 2012.
Barack Obama
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Barack Obama
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Barack Obama
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
Barack Obama
Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack Obama
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest
the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who
aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation
for the 21st-century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more
creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack Obama
John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
Barack Obama
Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
Barack Obama
My administration is the only thing between you [CEO's] and the pitchforks.
Barack Obama
My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
Barack Obama
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They
would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Barack Obama
No one is pro-abortion.
Barack Obama
One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian
nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
Barack Obama
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have
revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
Barack Obama
Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
Barack Obama
People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
Barack Obama
Please proceed, Governor.
Second presidential debate in Hempstead, New York on October 16, 2012.
Barack Obama
Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that
detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.
Barack Obama
The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians
has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
Barack Obama
The Cambridge police acted stupidly.
News conference on July 22, 2009.
Barack Obama
The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
Barack Obama
The relative decline of American education is untenable for our economy, unsustainable for
our democracy, and unacceptable for our children, and we cannot afford to let it continue.
Barack Obama
The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
Barack Obama
The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in
their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
Barack Obama
The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
Barack Obama
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one
people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
Barack Obama
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not
a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
Barack Obama
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
Barack Obama
This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been
a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.
Barack Obama
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave
our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
Barack Obama
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most
basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama
Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military,
or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Barack Obama
We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then
just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
Barack Obama
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set.
We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
Barack Obama
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that
people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
Barack Obama
We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
Barack Obama
We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
Barack Obama
We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what
it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
Barack Obama
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in
nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack Obama
We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our
libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
Barack Obama
We're not going to baby sit a civil war.
Barack Obama
What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
Barack Obama
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states
and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
Barack Obama
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation.
Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama
Why can't I just eat my waffle?
Barack Obama
With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
Barack Obama
You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
Barack Obama
You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we
also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called
aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.
Third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Florida on October 22, 2012.
Barack Obama
You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.
Barack Obama
We are the 99 percent.
Occupy Wall Street slogan.
Occupy
There is one category of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly
dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.
David Ogilvy
Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
Don't retreat! Reload!
Palin's Facebook and Twitter.
Sarah Palin
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's death panel.
Palin's Facebook on August 7, 2009.
Sarah Palin
The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.
Sarah Palin
I don't pretend that I had not moments of trial and of temptation, but I do claim that never in
thought, word, or deed, have I been false to the trust which Irishmen have confided in me.
Charles Stewart Parnell
No man shall have the right to fix the boundary to the march of a Nation.
Charles Stewart Parnell
I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
Rand Paul
We have to pass the (health care) bill so you can find out what is in it.
National Association of Counties on March 9, 2010.
Nancy Pelosi
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William Penn
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
William Penn
Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
Shimon Peres
For the whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their
native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.
Pericles
I come from an environment where, if you see a snake, you kill it. At General
Motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is hire a consultant on snakes.
Ross Perot
The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.
Ross Perot
Coffee, (which makes the politician wise, and see thro' all things with his half-shut eyes).
Alexander Pope
Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
Colin Powell
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea.
Enoch Powell
Bin Laden determined to strike in U.S.
President's Daily Brief
I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.
William Proxmire
I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.
Ayn Rand
I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald Reagan
Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other.
Ronald Reagan
Wages should be left to the fair and free competition of the market, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.
David Ricardo
We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end,
determines how many people are employed and what sort of wages companies can afford to pay.
Alfred Robens
Every time I get an opponent - I mean, every time I get a chance - I'm home.
Responding to questioning about whether he actually resides in Kansas, KCMO radio interview, July 3, 2014.
Pat Roberts
I don't make jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.
Mitt Romney
There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what ... who are dependent upon
government, who believe that they are victims. ... These are people who pay no income tax. ... and so my job is not to worry
about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.
Private fundraiser in Boca Raton, Florida on May 17, 2012.
Mitt Romney
We took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet [in
Massachusetts]. I went to a number of women's groups and said, Can you help us find folks?
and they brought us whole binders full of women.
Second presidential debate in Hempstead, New York on October 16, 2012.
Mitt Romney
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is
occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
Hans Rosling
Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
Leo Rosten
If we take the term in the strict sense, there never has been a real democracy, and there never
will be. It is against the natural order for the many to govern and the few to be governed.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I have made mistakes, but in all I did my object was the public good.
John Russell
The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.
Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton, Democratic presidential debate, Las Vegas, October 13, 2015.
Bernie Sanders
The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up
their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
Bernie Sanders
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
George Savile
Crying is almost a ritual that male politicians must do to prove they are compassionate, but women are supposed to wear iron britches.
Pat Schroeder
Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
Chuck Schumer
American people ... will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace
and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword
of true patriotism: Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.
Carl Schurz
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
Albert Schweitzer
He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.
Seneca
Lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty; the difficulty comes from lack of confidence.
Seneca
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Seneca
He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
I have a message for you. You are not welcome here. You have blood on your hands.
To President George W. Bush, in Crawford, Texas.
Cindy Sheehan
For lots of big companies, their brand is worth so much to them that they can't endanger their
reputation for being a quality company without really endangering their business performance.
Clare Short
Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a
belief deep down that if conditions get really tough the authorities will step in.
George Soros
Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of.
Philip Stanhope
I recommend you to take care of the minutes for the hours will take care of themselves.
Philip Stanhope
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Philip Stanhope
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai Stevenson
Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy.
Adlai Stevenson
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they
will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai Stevenson
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai Stevenson
The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan
dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Adlai Stevenson
A diplomat ... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett
The only people who never make mistakes are those who have never taken a decision.
Jack Straw
I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not
going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
Margaret Thatcher
In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher
Pennies don't fall from heaven. They have to be earned on earth.
Margaret Thatcher
We shall not be diverted from our course. To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media
catch-phrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say. You turn if you want; the lady's not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher
We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!
Speech at United Nations Climate Action Summit, New York, September 23, 2019.
Greta Thunberg
The depths and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when
they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Leon Trotsky
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Harry S. Truman
He's not a war hero. ... He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured.
Criticizing John McCain, interview at Family Leadership Summit, Ames, Iowa, July 18, 2015.
Donald Trump
I alone can fix it.
Speech at Republican National Convention, Cleveland, July 21, 2016.
Donald Trump
[I am] not smart, but genius ... and a very stable genius at that!
In a tweet, January 6, 2018.
Donald Trump
I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters.
Speech at campaign rally, Sioux Center, Iowa, January 23, 2016.
Donald Trump
I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken off.
As reported by The New York Times, explaining the firing of James Comey to visiting Russian officials, May 10, 2017.
Donald Trump
I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there
a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning?
Remarks at a White House Coronavirus Task Force news briefing, April 23, 2020.
Donald Trump
I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. Tell Zelensky to do the right thing.
In a phone call with Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, on September 9, 2022.
Donald Trump
I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.
Donald Trump
I would like you to do us a favor, though.
Memorandum of telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskiy, July 25, 2019.
Donald Trump
If you don't have passion ... you might as well give up ... you have no chance of
making it. Passion is the essence of life, and certainly the essence of success.
Donald Trump
If you're going to be thinking only one thing, you might as well be thinking big.
Donald Trump
In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
Donald Trump
Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?
On fellow Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, quoted in Rolling Stone magazine, September 24, 2015.
Donald Trump
My style of dealmaking is quite simple and straightforward. I just keep pushing and pushing to get what I'm after.
Donald Trump
One day - it's like a miracle - it will disappear.
Referring to the coronavirus in remarks at an African American History Month reception at the White House, February 27, 2020.
Donald Trump
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
In government it is order that matters; In action it is timeliness that matters.
Lao Tzu
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
William E. Vaughan
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
William E. Vaughan
All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within
its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
Jesse Ventura
As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law
enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.
Jesse Ventura
Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
Jesse Ventura
Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and
takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
Jesse Ventura
Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues
such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.
Jesse Ventura
I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up
to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.
Jesse Ventura
I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.
Jesse Ventura
I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just
get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.
Jesse Ventura
I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a
feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.
Jesse Ventura
I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.
Jesse Ventura
I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me
apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.
Jesse Ventura
I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.
Jesse Ventura
I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the
inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.
Jesse Ventura
I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term
as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.
Jesse Ventura
I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that.
But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am.
Jesse Ventura
I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
Jesse Ventura
If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.
Jesse Ventura
If I wanna be president, I probably can.
Jesse Ventura
If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.
Jesse Ventura
Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the
criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.
Jesse Ventura
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in
numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
Jesse Ventura
Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge
and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
Jesse Ventura
Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.
Jesse Ventura
Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to
get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.
Jesse Ventura
Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their
tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.
Jesse Ventura
The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
Jesse Ventura
There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.
Jesse Ventura
There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
Jesse Ventura
There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need
to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.
Jesse Ventura
We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false
portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.
Jesse Ventura
When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly.
It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.
Jesse Ventura
Wrestling is ballet with violence.
Jesse Ventura
You can't legislate morality.
Jesse Ventura
You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.
CNN interview on May 11, 2009.
Jesse Ventura
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the
politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
Voltaire
I have a plan for that.
Remark made at She the People
forum, Houston, April 24, 2019.
Elizabeth Warren
There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you! But I
want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us
paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.
Andover, Massachusetts, USA in August, 2011.
Elizabeth Warren
However many people complain about the red tape
, it would be sheer illusion to think for a
moment that continuous administrative work can be carried out except by means of officials working in
offices ... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dilettantism in the field of administration.
Max Weber
If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm
saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
Ai Weiwei
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
William Westmoreland
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely
the same in both cases. To know how much oil one must mix with one's vinegar.
Oscar Wilde
One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
Harold Wilson
You lie!
Wilson's shouted retort to Obama's address before a joint session of Congress on September 9, 2009.
Joe Wilson
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!
Woodrow Wilson
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility
for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
Fred Woodworth
I have no prefix or adjective for my anarchism. I think syndicalism can work, as can free-market
anarcho-capitalism, anarcho-communism, even anarcho-hermits, depending on the situation. But I do have a
strong individualist streak. Just plain anarchism-against government and authority-is what I'm for.
Fred Woodworth
If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are
fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.
Fred Woodworth
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Henry Wotton
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
Politics is war carried out without bloodshed, while war is politics carried out with bloodshed.
Mao Zedong
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