The secret of getting things done is to act!
Dante Alighieri

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Herbert Hoover

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

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Bill Vaughan

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

The world is governed by opinion.
William Ellery Channing

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

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

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alexander Hamilton

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph Nader

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
Bernard Baruch

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
George Will

Voting is a civic sacrament.
Theodore Hesburgh

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.
Frank Howard Clark