The repository contains 136 quotes in the category “Politics and Government.”
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I would rather be right than President.
Senator Henry Clay
1777 — 1852
Our Constitution is in actual operation. Everything appears to promise that it will last, but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
Senator Barry Goldwater
1909 — 1998
The press is not public opinion.
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
1815 — 1898
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
1815 — 1898
On heart valve surgery:
It’s no piece of cake, but it sure beats listening to Ted Kennedy on the Senate floor.
Senator Jesse Helms
1921 — 2008
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
Vin Scully
1927 —
Abuse of power is the exercise of authority in a manner unpleasant to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
1842 — 1914?
Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce
1842 — 1914?
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
1834 — 1902
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton
1834 — 1902
It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people to govern others. Every man is the best, the most responsible, judge of his own advantage.
Lord Acton
1834 — 1902
When asked what would be the first thing he would do if he won the 1965 New York City mayoral race:
Demand a recount.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
1925 — 2008
I am against vice in every form, including the Vice Presidency.
Rep. Morris K. Udall
1922 — 1998
Now NASA is on an unmanned space mission to the moon. I think NASA should redirect and have an unmanned space mission to Washington, DC, and try to find out if there is any intelligent life left in the nation’s capital.
Rep. James A. Traficant
1941 —
The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.
The State is the great fiction by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
Frederic Bástiát
1801 — 1850
The day someone calls me a politician, I haven’t done my job.
Remember, I taught Bill and Hillary Clinton when they were at Yale. Let me rephrase that. Bill and Hillary Clinton were in the room when I was teaching at Yale.
Judge Robert H. Bork
1927 —
Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians.
Governor Chester Bowles
1901 — 1986
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