Quotes and sayings about tag  politics

47 Quotes

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

George Burns

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Winston S. Churchill

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Harry Truman

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.

Jennifer Crusie

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

John F. Kennedy

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

Jon Stewart

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

José Martí

He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

Malala Yousafzai

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Margaret Thatcher

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

Margaret Thatcher

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

Mark Glamack

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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