Misc. Political Quotes

"Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift" ... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git." Alexai Sayle.

"In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes." Adlai Stevenson.

"The President has kept all the promises he intended to keep." Clinton aide George Stephanopolous.

"The Internet is a gateway to get on the net." Bob Dole.

"I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming." Jimmy Carter.

"I have orders to be awakened at any time in the case of a national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting." Ronald Reagan.

"It's no exaggeration to say that the undecided could go one way or another." George Bush.

"I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say." Richard Nixon.

"I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them." George Bush.

"Politics is supposed be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." Ronald Reagan.

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans." Ronald Reagan.

"I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon." Ronald Reagan.

"People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like." Abraham Lincoln.

"When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal." Richard Nixon.

"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before." Dwight D. Eisenhower.

"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law." David Dinkins, New York City Mayor.

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers We are the president." Hillary Clinton.

"You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." Al Capone.

"You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks." Robin Williams.

"Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in." Harry S. Truman.

"It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago." Dan Quayle.

"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." Charles de Gaulle.

"Traditionally most of Australia's imports come from overseas." Keppel Enderbery.

"When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice." Otto Von Bismark.

"It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed." Lenin.

"The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people." James Rado.

"We expect the Salvadorean officials to work towards the extermination of human rights." Dan Quayle.

"Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy." Peter Ustinov.

"In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks." Chris Patten.

"Chamberlain seemed such a nice old gentleman that I thought I would give him my autograph." Adolf Hitler.

"Put three Zionists in a room and they will form four political parties." Levi Eshkol.

"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied." Otto Von Bismark.

"Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least." Robert Byrne.

"Democracy is too good to share with just anybody." Nigel Rees.

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." George Bernard Shaw.

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people." Oscar Wilde.

"We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate." Kin Hubbard.

"Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help." Ken Livingstone.

"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination." Voltaire.

"I do not belong to any organized political party: I'm a democrat." Will Rogers.

"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." John Galbraith.