Politics Quotes

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
Imelda Marcos

Fish, Holding, Kings

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Fear, Find, Might

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry Adams

Purpose, Stands, Cheers

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

Woman, May, Republican

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Work, Hope, After

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Liberty, Serious, Difficult

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
Alphonse de Lamartine

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
John Foster Dulles

Faith, Peace, Men

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

War, Serious, Easy

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping

Political, Else, Election

Voting is a civic sacrament.
Theodore Hesburgh

Voting, Civic, Sacrament

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Clare Boothe Luce

Women, Men, Talk

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
Roger Nash Baldwin

Fight, Long, Democracy

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Spiro T. Agnew

American, Choice, Choose

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Grover Cleveland

Women, Long, Woman

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
Maggie Gallagher

Power, Political, Cannot

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

Faith, Democracy, Act

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
Robertson Davies

Conserving, Secondhand

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
Charles de Secondat

Power, Democracy, Body

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Grover Cleveland

Trust, Public, Chief

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
Abba Eban

Experience, Political, Mean

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.
Christy Romano

Money, After, Able

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
William Gilbert

Thinking, Thought, Call

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.
Gerhard Schroder

Important, Decisions, Fact

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

Mother, Before, Rather

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