American Politician Quotes

As we study the Word of God rightly divided we are to understand that God has arranged His dealings with mankind into two programs. We have His prophesied purpose and His secret purpose. Prophecy has to do with the earth and Christ's reign upon it during the millennial kingdom, while the Mystery concerns our exaltation with Christ in the heavenlies.

Well, you know, that's the problem in America, we're always having elections.

When Theodore Roosevelt asked for a legal justification for the acquisition of the Panama Canal project:

Oh, Mr President, do not let so great an achievement suffer from any taint of legality.

Philander C. Knox

Beam me up. The IRS does not need more workers. The IRS does not need more money. These stumbling, fumbling, bumbling mistake-prone nincompoops have got to go.

James Traficant

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

Les Brown (speaker)

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

I say to you gentlemen, that this discrimination against the Negro race in this country is unjust, is unworthy of a high-minded people whose example should have a salutary influence in the world.

Joseph Hayne Rainey

If Donald Trump were president, Putin would be sitting in Kyiv right now [...] with his eyes on the rest of Europe, starting with Poland.

I don't have an enemy in this state I hope, except rascals like Bill Dodd, Ray Knight and deLesseps Morrison. I'm proud of them! I'll be back. Keep your eye on the indicators. I thought I owed it to you to come look you in the eye and let as many of you see me and see I'm living and I'm not nuts. If I'm nuts, I've been nuts all my life. Thank ya, and God bless ya.

As long as the Negroes are held down by deprivation and lack of opportunity, the other poor people will be held down alongside them.

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.

This has been both a heartbreaking and humbling period of time for me and for my family. But what I can control is how I react to things and what I can control is how to make Virginia a better state.

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

The leaders who are now managing the Democratic Party in this state are the men who at the regular session of the legislature in 1861, declared that, if an army went from Indiana to assist in puting down the rebellion, it must first pass over their dead bodies.

Oliver P. Morton

I am not anti-trade. I am pro-trade, but I am pro-sensible trade, not trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker and to the American manufacturing community.

The people in this country come first—not the institutions.

Joseph Kennedy III

What are we to do then? Shall we remain supine, while these daring strangers are overrunning our fertile plains, and gradually outnumbering and displacing us? Shall these incursions go on unchecked, until we shall become strangers in our own land?

I am out of money, we are all out of money, but we don't need money down here - Don't need anything but Men, Muskets, Ammunition, Hard Tack, Bacon and Letters from home.

James A. Connolly

As each new discovery opens up, it may be, boundless oceans for investigation, for wonder, and for admiration, the great astronomers, refusing to accept mere hypotheses as true, have founded upon these discoveries a science as exact in its observation of facts as in theories.

George L. Forbes

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

Hillary Clinton was for the Iran agreement. And I can't support someone who is for the Iran agreement.... In my case, I'll be writing in General Colin Powell. That, I think, would be the best person.

Compromise, hell! That's what happened to us all down the line — and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?

Like the turbulent crowd at the rim of an arena, the sea surrounds the lands and awaits the issue of combat. Fretfully the colossus chafes at the margins of battlefields it is eager but impotent to enter.

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

I have a lot to weigh: the basis of public service, which I've given my life to, a career choice. And most importantly, what I want to do as a parent. I know something about the White House. That, I assume, is one of the reasons that President-elect Obama would like me to serve. But I also know something about what it means to a family.