American Politician Quotes

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?

A lot of my measures were embraced in other bills. I don't want to be (like) Kennedy, Rostenkowski … (and) put bad legislation on the books.

Leo Ryan's life and his deeds are about a life that was so much more than Guyana. He was relentless in his search for answers, answers that were not readily available by just asking questions... We remember him today because his story is so much like those of most Americans; we want to believe the best and we sometimes hear the worst.

Those not favorable to the money trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the banking and currency laws which the Money Trust would frame.

Charles August Lindbergh

Of the WorldCom collapse:

In many respects, this case appears to be eerily similar to the accounting hocus-pocus that occurred at Enron.

I've told Rudy that as long as he returns my phone calls, I'm here to stay. The day he doesn't, I'm gone.

Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Voting and participating in the democratic process are key. The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society. You must use it because it is not guaranteed. You can lose it.

No man should live where he can hear his neighbor's dog bark.

Nathaniel Macon

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

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

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.'

After being asked to stop his long and tedious speech because no one was listening to him:

Never mind, I'm talking to Buncombe.

Buncombe, in North Carolina, was the place Felix represented. He coined the word 'bunk'

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

Alexander H. Stephens

A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom.... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom—his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom

Constance Baker Motley

Fundamentalists tell us to fear the specter of special rights for gay citizens, though of course gay Americans aren't after special rights - merely equal rights. The irony is that special rights actually do exist in this country-for religious groups.

The man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser.

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.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

George A. Smith

When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.

It was the first airplane... that could make money just by hauling passengers.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

To be told that mathematics is good training for the mind does not insure either the intelligent or ardent pursuit of this branch of science.

When you're dealing with people who think that Sponge Bob Square Pants is more important than social security, you have a problem.

Christine Todd Whitman