I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
Will Rogers

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
Oliver Stone

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.
Dan Quayle

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
Meg Greenfield

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
William Tecumseh Sherman

If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words.
Esther B. Fein

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Nelson Mandela

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Emma Goldman

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis D. Brandeis

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
Hyman Rickover

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.
Edward Koch

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
Dan Quayle

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. William Fulbright

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!
Dan Quayle

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
Dick Gregory

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles de Gaulle

In politics nothing is contemptible.
Benjamin Disraeli