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 always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas Sowell

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

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman

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

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

In politics the middle way is none at all.
John Adams

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson