Quotes & Sayings

• The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. -Benjamin Franklin

• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln

• Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. -Henry Adams

• Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. -Ernest Benn

• The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that’s out always looks the best. -Will Rogers

• If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure. – George W. Bush

• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity. -Irving Kristol

• More and more of our imports come from overseas. – George W. Bush

• In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher

• It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. -Albert Einstein

• Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. -Lily Tomlin

• Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. -Soren Kierkegaard

• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -Galileo Galilei

• Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -Napoleon Bonaparte

• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. -Aesop

• Mankind will never see an end of trouble until… lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power… become lovers of wisdom. -Plato, The Republic

• Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. -Oscar Ameringer

• Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. -Plato

• Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. -Richard Armour

• A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -Edward Abbey