“Politics
would be a helluva good business if it weren’t for the goddamned
people.”
Richard M. Nixon
“That
government is best which governs least.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Brevity
is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.”
Cicero
“The
genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves,
only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility
that there may be something to them which we are missing.”
Gamel Nassar
“Nobody
believes an official spokesman… but everybody trusts an unidentified
source.”
Ron Nesen
“Governments
view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: if it moves,
tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize
it.”
Ronald Reagan
“The
president has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.”
George Stephanopolous (Clinton aide)
“In
America, anybody can be president. That’s one of the risks you take.”
Adlai Stevenson
“Standing
in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic
from both sides.”
Margaret Thatcher
“Being
in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you
aren’t.”
Margaret Thatcher
“Wherever
you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.”
Harry S. Truman
“If
you can’t convince them, confuse them.”
Harry S. Truman
“Any
man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man
who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.”
Sir Winston Churchill
“If
I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
Abraham Lincoln
“Men
and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.”
Abba Eban
“Democracy
does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality
of opportunity.”
Irving Kristol
“Leaders
who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they
promise, not the ones who promise more than they deliver.”
Mark A. Clement
“I’m
responsible only to God and history.”
Francisco Franco
“Good
leaders must first become good servants.”
Robert Greenleaf
“The
great masses of the people… will more easily fall victims to a big
lie than to a small one.”
Adolf Hitler
“In
a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries
the ultimate responsibility.”
Norman Cousins
“The
death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It
will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference and under nourishment.”
Robert Hutchins
“The
budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced,
the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance
to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.”
Cicero
“I
think that people want peace so much that one of these days government
had better get out of their way and let them have it.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Too
bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving
taxicabs and cutting hair.”
George Burns
“In
politics stupidity is not a handicap.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“A
leader is a dealer in hope.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“No
man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get
all the credit for doing it.”
Andrew Carnegie
“A
little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the
political world as storms in the physical.”
Thomas Jefferson
“That
government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline
themselves.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The
‘C’ students run the world.”
Harry S. Truman
"When
I was coming up, it was a dangerous world and you knew exactly who they
were. It was us versus them and it was clear who them was. Today we are
not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there."
Texas Gov. George W. Bush, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Jan. 21,
2000.
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