Politics / Government Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

747 Politics / Government Quotes
“I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.”
Richard Milhous Nixon Quotes
“You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.”
Richard Milhous Nixon Quotes
“I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...”
Richard Milhous Nixon Quotes
“When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”
Richard Milhous Nixon Quotes
“I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.”
Richard Milhous Nixon Quotes
“We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.”
Richard Milhous Nixon Quotes
“While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned; it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.”
Richard Milhous Nixon Quotes
“Well, I'm not a crook.”
Richard Milhous Nixon Quotes
“I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.”
Richard Milhous Nixon Quotes
“A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.”
Richard Milhous Nixon Quotes
“Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.”
Richard Milhous Nixon Quotes
“I have impeached myself by resigning.”
Richard Milhous Nixon Quotes
“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.”
Harry Shearer Quotes
“There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.”
Clarence Darrow Quotes
“It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.”
Georges Courteline Quotes
“It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.”
Henry Miller Quotes
“Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.”
J. Bartlett Brebner Quotes
“The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.”
Sir Humphrey Davy Quotes
“The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.”
Orlando A. Battista Quotes
“If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
“When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.”
Matt Groening Quotes
“Did you ever hear anyone say "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very dangerous to me?”
Joseph Henry Jackson Quotes
“Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
William Pitt Quotes
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”
P.J. O'Rourke Quotes
“You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.”
Lyndon Johnson Quotes
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