American Politician Quotes

The Bush National Security Strategy is the imperial edict of a superpower out to exploit its present supremacy to make itself permanent Lord Protector of the universe.

When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we've lost our way.

For those that don't have our back, we're taking name, we will make points to respond to that acccordingly.

[Mr Nixon's latest statement] is the Operative White House Position…and all previous statements are inoperative.

Reminded of the President's previous statements that the White House was not involved in the Watergate affair

Ronald L. Ziegler

I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death.

Thaddeus Stevens

John McCain may pay hundreds of dollars for his shoes, but we're the ones who will pay for his flip-flops.

Bill Richardson

America understands that there is one party in this country that is favor of health care reform and one party that is against it, and they know why. They understand that if Barack Obama were somehow able to cure hunger in the world the Republicans would blame him for overpopulation. They understand that if Barack Obama could somehow bring about world peace they would blame him for destroying the defense industry. In fact, they understand that if Barack Obama has a BLT sandwich tomorrow for lunch, they will try to ban bacon. But that's not what America wants, America wants solutions to its problems and that begins with health care, and that's what I'm speaking for tonight.

The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite the philosophical disagreements it may have with the nature of particular regimes. It must seek pragmatic ways to help people without necessarily embracing their governments. It should recognize that diplomatic relations are merely practical conveniences and not measures of moral judgment.

Nelson Rockefeller

Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.

John Foster Dulles

More and more parents are coming to realize their children are suffering at the hands of a system built to strangle any reform, any innovation, or any change.... This realization is becoming more evident as the momentum builds for an education revolution.

Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall.

This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union — and we know how successful that was.

If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

Clare Boothe Luce

I believe that every human being has the right to his life and to his liberty, and to act in this world so as to secure his own happiness.

Stand up for what you believe in, because you can fall for anything.

Les Brown (speaker)

Of Idaho:

It is a melancholy strange-looking country, one of fractures and violence and fire.

John C. Frémont

... reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing.

No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.

Edward Livingston

The true touchstone of civil liberty is not that all men are equal but that every man has the right to be the equal of every other man – if he can.

Benjamin Butler (politician)

Forty-one years ago that couple from Haiti could have made the choice to abort, but they didn't. They chose life. They didn't choose what might have been; they chose what is to come. They went and followed and fostered that life, and the future and the dreams that baby would bring

You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate.

To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be the last resort, not a first choice. I truly must question the judgment of any president who can say that a massive, unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over fifty percent children is 'in the highest moral traditions of our country.'

Dave Barry:: Are you really Dick Armey?
Dick Armey:: Yes, I am Dick Armey. And if there is a dick army, Barney Frank would want to join up.

Has he paid his dues? Is he black enough? … John Lewis and I were out there marching and organizing sit-ins back in the '60s so that his children and my children would not have to do it. … We would have been failures if [Obama] had to do the same things we did.

The Democratic Party is like a mule—without pride of ancestry or hope of posterity.

Ignatius L. Donnelly