Politics Quotes

"Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan."

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."

"If the federal government had remained out of the marketplace, we would not have the inflation, the unemployment, and the recession we're now in."

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it."

"In the Soviet system, only the people serve the state. Theirs is a gray world, gray with the grayness of the human spirit under a tyranny."

"I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism."

"What seems to be needed is not a bigger government, but a better one."

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."

"Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."

"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country."

"Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me."

"I do not believe there is any starving because of lack of money in this country, it is all politics."

"It sure is hell to be President of the most powerful nation in the world and be forced to stand by and watch a country go Communistic due to the decision of the President of the United States."

"A politician is a statesman who approaches every question of principle by announcing his opinion and then seeking facts to sustain it."

"The most dangerous thing in America is not the radical, but the cynical man."

"Democracy in a nation of 300 million people is not a light switch that we turn on and off."

"We are not as divided as our politics suggests."

"The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works."

"Politics should be about people, not personality."

"The pursuit of political power must always be guided by moral principles."

"You can't get any more bipartisan than baseball."

"Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."

"Take the Constitution out of the closet and read it."

"The people have the final say, not the politicians."

"The beauty of democracy is that everyone has a voice."

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."

"Europe is not the creation of the Maastricht Treaty."

"It is not the business of the British Parliament and Government to resolve foreign conflicts."

"The Soviet Union remains evil. This is mutually advantageous; they need us as an enemy."