Political Quotes And Sayings

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“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”
– Ronald Reagan

“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”
– Ronald Reagan

“Status quo, you know, is Latin for ‘the mess we’re in’.”
– Ronald Reagan

“the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.”
– Sidney Sheldon

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”
– Sinclair Lewis

“Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law”
– Sophocles

“If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn’t have declared their independence from it.”
– Stephen Colbert

“Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”
– Sun Tzu

“I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. I think that Peeta was onto something about us destroying one another and letting some decent species take over. Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like. Snow thought the Hunger Games were an efficient means of control. Coin thought the parachutes would expedite the war. But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen.”
– Suzanne Collins

“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don’t read anything”
– Thomas Nixon Carver

“Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers.”
– Tina Fey

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
– Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low”
– Wallace Sayre

“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”
– Will Rogers

“You’ve got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you’ve got to be a humorist to stay one”
– Will Rogers

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on. ”
– William S. Burroughs

“If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
– Winston Churchill

“In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.”
– Winston Churchill

“Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.”
– Winston Churchill

“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”
– Winston S. Churchill

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
– Winston S. Churchill

“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”
– Winston S. Churchill

“Show me a young Conservative and I’ll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I’ll show you someone with no brains.”
– Winston S. Churchill

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
– Winston S. Churchill

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
– Winston S. Churchill

“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”
– Yann Martel

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