Win The Life

Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism. - Theodore Roosevelt

 

Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other. - Viscount of Blackburn

 

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

 

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority. - James Barrett 'Scotty' Reston

 

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

 

In politics stupidity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

 

In almost every act of our lives whether in the sphere of politics or business in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind. - Edward L. Bernays

 

The single most dangerous thing you can do in politics is shut off information from people who don't agree with you. Surround yourself with sycophants, listen only to the yea-sayers, then stick a fork in it, you're done. (Election Denial) - Molly Ivins

 

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you. - Samuel Johnson

 

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. -Groucho Marx

 

Politics, noun. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

 

The Democrats are the party of government activism, the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then get elected and prove it. -P.J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores

 

The enemy isn’t conservatism. The enemy isn’t liberalism. The enemy is bullshit. -Lars-Erik Nelson

 

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. -Ambrose Bierce

 

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. -Will Rogers

 

For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex...uh...setbacks. -George Bush, Sr.

 

She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life. -Sen. Ted Kennedy, speaking about his then-fiancee, Victoria Reggie

 

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. -Ronald Reagan

 

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time. -Bob Dole, on working with the Clinton administration

 

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head. -Jim Hightower, former Texas Commissioner of Agriculture, referring to the elder Bush

 

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil. -Bob Dole, watching former presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon standing by each other at a White House event

 

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, D.C.

 

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? -Marion Barry

 

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. -Newt Gingrich, speaking at the 1996 Republican Convention

 

They don't call me Tyrannosaurus Sex for nothing. -Ted Kennedy

 

In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them. -Jack Kemp

 

Ozone Man, Ozone. He's crazy, way out, far out, man. -George Bush, Sr.

 

Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know?...I bet if they did, I hope I would say, 'Hey, get lost. We don't want any of that.' -George Bush, Sr

 

You cannot be president of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial and the Civil War and all that stuff. You can't be. And we are blessed. So don't feel sorry for - don't cry for me, Argentina. Message: I care. -George Bush, Sr., speaking to employees of an insurance company during the 1992 New Hampshire primary

 

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering. -George Bush, Sr.

 

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around. -George Bush, Sr.

 

He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth. -Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards on misstatements made by George Bush, Sr.

 

People would say, 'We need a man on the ticket. -Rep. Pat Schroeder, on why George Bush was unlikely to choose a woman as his running mate in 1988

 

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.-Dan Quayle

 

There are lots more people in the House. I don't know exactly - I've never counted, but at least a couple hundred. -Dan Quayle, on the difference between the House and Senate

 

The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap....I chose not to dump her off. -Former Senator and presidential candidate Gary Hart, on his encounter with Donna Rice

 

A number of things that I put in (the diary) were inaccurate, and some of them simply weren't true....On occasion, I discovered I would recount conversations that simply didn't happen.'' -Sen. Bob Packwood, referring to his infamous diaries in which he boasted of his sexual dalliances with staff members

 

Well, I learned a lot....I went down to (Latin America) to find out from them and (learn) their views. You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries -Ronald Reagan

 

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me. -Jimmy Carter

 

All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it. -Lyndon Johnson

 

If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream. -Barry Goldwater

 

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.-Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.-Winston Churchill

 

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.-Milton Friedman

 

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.-W. C. Fields

 

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

 

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.-Margaret Thatcher

 

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

 

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.-Dan Quayle

 

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.-Will Rogers

 

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.-Arthur C. Clarke

 

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.-Thomas Jefferson

 

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.-Edward Koch

 

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.-Napoleon Bonaparte

 

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.-A. N. Wilson

 

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.-Sydney Pollack

 

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.-Gary Hart

 

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

 

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.-Barry Goldwater

 

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

 

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

 

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.-Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

 

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

 

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.-Mohandas Gandhi

 

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

 

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.-Joseph Stalin

 

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.-George MacDonald

 

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

 

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.-Daniel Webster

 

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.-John F. Kennedy

 

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.-William E. Gladstone

 

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.-John Kenneth Galbraith

 

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.-Khalil Gibran

 

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.-Thomas B. Macaulay

 

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.-John F. Kennedy

 

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

 

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.-Henry A. Kissinger

 

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.-Emma Goldman

 

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.-Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.-Plato

 

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.-Cal Thomas