Politics / Government Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

747 Politics / Government Quotes
“The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.”
Nick Nuessle Quotes
“The ballot is stronger than bullets. - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.”
Joseph Schumpeter Quotes
“The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.”
Jimmy Breslin Quotes
“Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.”
David Broder Quotes
“You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.”
John Dean Quotes
“Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.”
Archibald Cox Quotes
“When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.”
Dick Houser Quotes
“From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.”
Leon Jaworski Quotes
“What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?”
Marion Barry Quotes
“Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied.”
Edward Cheyfitz Quotes
“I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
“Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.”
Grover Cleveland Quotes
“I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.”
John G. Diefenbaker Quotes
“A billion here and a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.”
Everett Mckinley Dirksen Quotes
“Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.”
Roger Ebert Quotes
“In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!”
Dan Quayle Quotes
“When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.”
Dan Quayle Quotes
“Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.”
Dan Quayle Quotes
“I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.”
Dan Quayle Quotes
“I deserve respect for the things I did not do.”
Dan Quayle Quotes
“Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.”
James Harvey Robinson Quotes
“The American people want to preserve their American heritage, and they have the quaint belief that public lands belong to them as much as to the people of the state where the lands are located.”
John F. Seiberling Quotes
“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”
Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
“Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.”
Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
“He loved politicians - even Republicans.”
Margaret Truman Quotes
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